Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter / Laura Goodman Salverson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salverson, Laura Goodman, 1890-1970, Author.

Contributor:

T Streets, Contributor.

Series:

Carleton Library Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Canadian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Canadian.

Children of immigrants--Canada--Biography.

Children of immigrants.

Icelanders--Canada--Biography.

Icelanders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Born in Winnipeg to Icelandic immigrants in 1890, Laura Goodman Salverson embarked on a life marked by contradiction and cultural exchange. Her 1939 memoir braids the strands of her parents’ intellectual life in Iceland with a hardscrabble existence on the Prairies at the turn of the century, all against a backdrop of European settlement in post-Riel Manitoba and in colourful, self-assured prose. Leaving behind economic hardship, a difficult climate, and the threat of volcanoes, Lars Gudman was in search of stability for his family, but he was also ensnared by wanderlust. Travelling onward to Minnesota, the Dakotas, Selkirk, Duluth, and the Mississippi Valley, Salverson and her parents returned time and again to the Icelandic enclave in Winnipeg, a community struggling to adjust to life in Canada. In Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter Salverson makes real the political and cultural history of the twentieth-century North American west, even as she draws the reader into the inner life of a young girl growing up “hopelessly Icelandic” and finding refuge from discrimination and ostracism in the world of books. With a new introduction by Carl Watts situating the memoir and its prolific author in the literary canon, and reproducing Salverson’s original preface for the first time, Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter remains both a Canadian classic and an important social history of the experiences of women and immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

General Editor’s Note

Introduction to the Carleton Library Series Edition

Author’s Preface (To book presently entitled Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter–suggested new title: Dragons In The Sky.)

Chapter Numbers and Titles for book presently entitled Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter–new title

Author’s Foreword

The First Horizon

I Discover My Birthplace

Introducing Job’s Cycle

Humours of the Last Frontier

Treasured Portrait

I Meet the August Ancestors

Introduction to Exile

Exile

First Taste of the New World

Subjective Interlude

God’s Fields

Those Child Transgressions

Tales Strange and Varied

Vignettes of a Private World

Selkirk Interlude

False Security

The American Scene Opens

New Friends of Novel Fortune

The Scene Brightens

Fresh Misfortune

Solitary Christmas

The World Enlarges

Meeting Destiny

New Worlds to Conquer

Adolescent Conditioning

Tales Out of Time

I Discover Drama

Darker Reason

Again Green Pastures

Magic Moonlight

Deep Interval

Forced Decision

The North Once More

Trials of a Job Hunter

Readjustment and the Righteous Few

A Kitchen-View of Society

The Working World

And So Farewell

Back to the Canadian Scene

My Prairie Argosy

The Face of Virtue

I Settle in My Own Country

Homestead and Boarding-House

Birth of an Author

So Dreams Come True

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

9780228018568

OCLC:

1370347608