Creating This Place
eBook - ePub

Creating This Place

Women, Family, and Class in St John's, 1900-1950

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eBook - ePub

Creating This Place

Women, Family, and Class in St John's, 1900-1950

About this book

The women of St John's and the making of Newfoundland society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Maps and Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Creating This Place: An Introduction
  7. 1. Activist Anglicans and Rectors’ Wives: The Impact of Class and Gender on Women’s Church Work in St John’s
  8. 2. A Class unto Itself: Phebe Florence Miller’s Outport Literary Salon
  9. 3. Julia Salter Earle: Seeking Social Justice
  10. 4. Below Stairs: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century St John’s
  11. 5. Armine Nutting Gosling: A Full and Useful Life
  12. 6. “She Knows Who She Is”: Educating Girls to Their Place in Society
  13. 7. “It’s Up to the Women”: Gender, Class, and Nation Building in Newfoundland, 1935–1945
  14. 8. Thrift and the Good Child Citizen: The Junior Thrift Clubs in Confederation-Era Newfoundland
  15. 9. “I Am Very Badly in Need of Help”: Promises and Promissory Notes in Women’s Letters to J.R. Smallwood
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Contributors