ISBN:
9780773543102
,
9780773543119
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (353 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Creating this place : women, family, and class in St. John's, 1900-1950
DDC:
305.409718/1
Keywords:
Urban women History 20th century
;
Urban women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John''s -- History -- 20th century
;
St. John''s (N.L.) -- History -- 20th century
;
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Social conditions -- 1900-1949
;
Electronic books
;
Newfoundland and Labrador Social conditions 1900-1949
;
St. John's (N.L.) History 20th century
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The women of St John's and the making of Newfoundland society.
Abstract:
Cover -- CREATING THIS PLACE -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Creating This Place: An Introduction -- 1 Activist Anglicans and Rectors' Wives: The Impact of Class and Gender on Women's Church Work in St John's -- 2 A Class unto Itself: Phebe Florence Miller's Outport Literary Salon -- 3 Julia Salter Earle: Seeking Social Justice -- 4 Below Stairs: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century St John's -- 5 Armine Nutting Gosling: A Full and Useful Life -- 6 "She Knows Who She Is": Educating Girls to Their Place in Society -- 7 "It's Up to the Women": Gender, Class, and Nation Building in Newfoundland, 1935-1945 -- 8 Thrift and the Good Child Citizen: The Junior Thrift Clubs in Confederation-Era Newfoundland -- 9 "I Am Very Badly in Need of Help": Promises and Promissory Notes in Women's Letters to J.R. Smallwood -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""CREATING THIS PLACE""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Maps and Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Creating This Place: An Introduction""; ""1 Activist Anglicans and Rectors� Wives: The Impact of Class and Gender on Women�s Church Work in St John�s""; ""2 A Class unto Itself: Phebe Florence Miller�s Outport Literary Salon""; ""3 Julia Salter Earle: Seeking Social Justice""; ""4 Below Stairs: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century St John�s""; ""5 Armine Nutting Gosling: A Full and Useful Life""
Description / Table of Contents:
""6 “She Knows Who She Is�: Educating Girls to Their Place in Society""""7 “It�s Up to the Women�: Gender, Class, and Nation Building in Newfoundland, 1935�1945""; ""8 Thrift and the Good Child Citizen: The Junior Thrift Clubs in Confederation-Era Newfoundland""; ""9 “I Am Very Badly in Need of Help�: Promises and Promissory Notes in Women�s Letters to J.R. Smallwood""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Contributors""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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