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Grace Margaret Patten Sparkes (1908–2003) was born in Grand Bank, the youngest of ten children born to Elizabeth Hickman and John B. Patten. A lover of music, curling, and politics, this fierce anti-Confederate made a name for herself in the political arena under the...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2014-05-22
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Not the Whole Story is a compilation of sixteen stories narrated by single mothers in their own way and about their own lives. Each story is unique, but the same issues appear again and again. Abuse, parenting as single mothers, challenges in the labour market, mental...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-04-18
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Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience is Carolyne Van Der Meer’s creative reinterpretation through short stories, poems, and essays of the experiences of her mother and other individuals who either spent their childhoods in Nazi-occupied Holland or were...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-03-25
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Life Writing
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From a shy small-town girl singing for family and friends at community concerts, to the bright lights of country music fame, from the wheelhouse of her very own fishing vessel hundreds of miles offshore, to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in whiteout conditions, from...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2013-10-11
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Women’s letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and relegated to basements, attics, closets, and, increasingly, cyberspace...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-01-24
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Life Writing
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Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2012-05-01
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Life Writing
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January 21, 1995: Dorothy Joudrie is arrested for attempting to murder her estranged husband. Soon after, Audrey Andrews begins to write her book. Audrey and Dorothy had known each other as children, but the identification of Andrews with Joudrie goes beyond merely the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-08-25
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Life Writing
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Winner, SFU Writer's Studio's First Book Competition (2010)
Winner, Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award (2011)
Unmarried and pregnant in 1968 Winnipeg, teenager Myrl Coulter found herself at a loss. Unable (and perhaps unwilling) to support her child,...
Editeur :
Anvil Press
Parution :
2011-04-28
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One hundred years after his death, Leo Tolstoy continues to be regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished writers. Historically, little attention has been paid to his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya. Acting in the capacity of literary assistant, translator,...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2011-02-21
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Doctored was written to help the many women who have been sexually abused by their doctors.
Doctored is a moving true story about the devastating impact
of a doctor’s abuse of power. It is a first-person account of one
woman’s steely determination to recover and to...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Doctored was written to help the many women who have been sexually abused by their doctors.
Doctored is a moving true story about the devastating impact
of a doctor’s abuse of power. It is a first-person account of one
woman’s steely determination to recover and to...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2010-11-01
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“The generation of 1930 in French intellectual life was unique in the gravity of the challenges they faced.” Simone Weil—the brilliant social and political theorist, activist, and spiritual writer—was one of an eminent company in the France of the 1930s who responded to...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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“It’s an autobiography! If I tell you what’s in it you won’t read the book.” — Claire Drainie Taylor Or would you? Maybe you’d be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class Jewish Canadian couple in a small...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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Life Writing
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So, it was January the 18 and it was the middle of the night. And it was very, very cold. Snow was — we went just about knee deep in snow — And we went on the road going toward Posen, capital of Wartegau. And so we said, “Let’s take that direction.” Just going by the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-01-11
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Persecuted as a Jew, both under the Nazis and in post-war East Germany, Johanna Krause (1907–2001) courageously fought her way through life with searing humour and indomitable strength of character. Johanna Krause TwicePersecuted is her story. Born in Dresden into...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-10-23
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Life Writing
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What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-10-21
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Life Writing
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In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-04
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Life Writing
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Olivia Cockett was twenty-six years old in the summer of 1939 when she responded to an invitation from Mass Observation to “ordinary” individuals to keep a diary of their everyday lives, attitudes, feelings, and social relations. This book is an annotated, unabridged...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-03
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Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a radical politician, the first Communist elected to Canadaís House of Commons, and the only woman elected in 1940. But despite her remarkable career, until now little has been known about her.From her youth in London during...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2006-10-30
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How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
Collection :
Life Writing
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