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Author McDonald-Rissanen, Mary, author.

Title In the interval of the wave : Prince Edward Island women's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century life writing / Mary McDonald-Rissanen.

Publication Info. Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
©2014
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 271 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.
Contents Prologue: In the Interval of the Wave -- The Tumbled Silence of Stone: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing -- In Their Long-Belted Dresses: Images of Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Prince Edward Island Women -- The Emerging Pioneer Subject: Entrepreneur Emma Chadwick Stretch's 1856-60 Letters and Ledger -- A Rural Woman's Perceptions of Home and Beyond: Farm Wife Amy Darby Tanton Andrew's "A Line a Day," 1910-1915 -- The Modern Professional Woman: Teacher Lucy Bardon Palmer Haslam's Unpublished Journals (1884-1943) -- Urban Bourgeois Women and Their Everyday: Margaret Gray Lord (1845-1941) and Wanda Lefurgey Wyatt (1895-1998) -- Travelling Women's Diaries: Mercy Ann Coles (1864), Violet E. Goldsmith (1901), Carrie Holman (1917), Vera Hyde (1929-30) and Lucy Palmer Haslam (1932) -- Now Passion's Past: Life Writing, Women and Their Times.
Summary Capturing the hidden histories of Prince Edward Island women in their handwritten pages.
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Subject Women -- Prince Edward Island -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Women.
Prince Edward Island.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women -- Prince Edward Island -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women -- Prince Edward Island -- History -- 19th century.
History.
Women -- Prince Edward Island -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Prince Edward Island -- Biography.
Women -- Prince Edward Island -- Identity.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Women and literature -- Prince Edward Island -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature.
Women and literature -- Prince Edward Island -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Title Prince Edward Island women's nineteenth-and early twentieth-century life writing
Other Form: Print version: McDonald-Rissanen, Mary. In the interval of the wave. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014] 0773542124 9780773542129
ISBN 9780773589254 (electronic book)
0773589252 (electronic book)
9780773542129
0773542124