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Darby Tanton Andrew's "A Line a Day," 1910-1915 -- The Modern Professional Woman: Teacher Lucy Bardon Palmer Haslam's Unpublished Journals (1884-1943) -- Urban Bourgeois Women and Their Everyday: Margaret Gray Lord (1845-1941) and Wanda Lefurgey Wyatt (1895-1998) -- Travelling Women's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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index
