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Just a Larger Family : Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940–1944 / Mary F. Williamson and Tom Sharp, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williamson, Marie, 1898-1969.
- Series:
- Life writing series.
- Life writing series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sharp, Margaret, 1896-1987--Correspondence.
- Sharp, Margaret.
- Williamson, Marie, 1898-1969--Correspondence.
- Williamson, Marie.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Canada.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Canadian.
- Toronto (Ont.)--Biography.
- Toronto (Ont.).
- Genre:
- Briefsammlung 1940-1944.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic text (xxii, 378 p.) : port., digital file.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2011
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Marie wrote over 150 letters to Margaret Sharp between August 1940 and May 1944, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased their adaptation to a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports. The letters brim with detail about food shortages and rationing, family holidays, the family's efforts to cope with the financial implications of two extra mouths to feed, their involvement in their church, and the games and activities that kept them occupied. Marie's letters reflect the lives and concerns of a particular family in Toronto, but they also reveal a portrait of what was then Canada's second-largest city during wartime. --pub. desc.
- "The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them for the duration of the conflict. Marie and John, who lived with their own two children in a small house in north Toronto, had met the boys' mother, Margaret Sharp - a distant cousin of Marie - just once. Nobody had any idea how long the war would last. What were they getting themselves into? Nevertheless, all Canadians, Marie was convinced, wanted to do their bit for Britain.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Biographical notes
- 1940
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
- Epilogue
- Margaret Sharp to Marie Williamson after putting her sons on the ship for Canada
- Katharine Beamish to Margaret Sharp after visiting the Sharp boys in Toronto
- Sylvia Anthony to Margaret Sharp after a visit to the Williamsons where she had time with the boys
- Eve Burns to Margaret Sharp after a visit to Toronto when she saw the boys
- Eve Burns to Margaret Sharp to describe Christopher’s reaction to the news of his father’s remarriage
- Notes
- Index
- Books in the Life Writing Series
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-366) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613810946
- 9781554583461
- 1554583462
- 9781282233201
- 1282233203
- 9781554583225
- 1554583225
- OCLC:
- 662578655
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