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Confessions of an immigrant's daughter /
"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 cent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Carleton library series ;
265. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- General Editor's Note
- Introduction to the Carleton Library Series Edition
- Author's Preface
- Manuscript Table of Contents
- Author's Foreword
- Part One
- 1 The First Horizon
- 2 I Discover My Birthplace
- 3 Introducing Job's Cycle
- 4 Humours of the Last Frontier
- 5 Treasured Portrait
- 6 I Meet the August Ancestors
- 7 Introduction to Exile
- 8 Exile
- 9 First Taste of the New World
- 10 Subjective Interlude
- 11 God's Fields
- 12 Those Child Transgressions
- 13 Tales Strange and Varied
- 14 Vignettes of a Private World
- 15 Selkirk Interlude
- 16 False Security
- Part Two
- 17 The American Scene Opens
- 18 New Friends of Novel Fortune
- 19 The Scene Brightens
- 20 Fresh Misfortune
- 21 Solitary Christmas
- 22 The World Enlarges
- 23 Meeting Destiny
- Part Three
- 24 New Worlds to Conquer
- 25 Adolescent Conditioning
- 26 Tales Out of Time
- 27 I Discover Drama
- 28 Darker Reason
- 29 Again Green Pastures
- 30 Magic Moonlight
- 31 Deep Interval
- 32 Forced Decision
- 33 The North Once More
- 34 Trials of a Job Hunter
- 35 Readjustment and the Righteous Few
- 36 A Kitchen-View of Society
- 37 The Working World
- 38 And So Farewell
- 39 Back to the Canadian Scene
- 40 My Prairie Argosy
- 41 The Face of Virtue
- 42 I Settle in My Own Country
- 43 Homestead and Boarding-House
- 44 Birth of an Author
- 45 So Dreams Come True