Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  NEW! Chapter FourFrom: Rooms |
The author outlines some thoughts on Woolf, writing, language, queerness, trauma and sexual assault, relationships and abuse, and dealing with the past. | Sina Queyras | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Chapter FourFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes how, in 1920 at seven years old, she was taken from the Stoney Creek reserve to attend the Mission School at Fort St. James. | Bridget Moran | 6 | 1988 | $0.60 Add |
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From Chapter FourteenFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John traces the relentless toll of tuberculosis and poverty on the Stoney Creek community during the Depression and into the 1950s. | Bridget Moran | 7 | 1988 | $0.70 Add |
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From Chapter NineFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes her arranged marriage to Lazare John on the Stoney Creek reserve in 1929. | Bridget Moran | 9 | 1988 | $0.90 Add |
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From Chapter NineteenFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes the Stoney Creek reserve in British Columbia through the late 1970s and 1980s. | Bridget Moran | 7 | 1988 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Chapter One: British War BridesFrom: Captured Hearts |
Chapter One explores the experiences of New Brunswick servicemen while overseas in Great Britain as well as the experiences of civilian women across Great Britain throughout the Second World War. … | Melynda Jarratt | 16 | 2008 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter OneFrom: Rooms |
The author talks about the process of starting this book, Virginia Woolf scholarship and her and her books’ presence/form in popular culture, and their own experiences in life and in school. | Sina Queyras | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From Chapter OneFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes her family’s history, beginning with the 1918 influenza pandemic. | Bridget Moran | 6 | 1988 | $0.60 Add |
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From Chapter SevenFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes her dread at returning to Lejac residential school after a fraudulent healer swindled the Stoney Creek reserve. | Bridget Moran | 4 | 1988 | $0.40 Add |
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From Chapter SeventeenFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes how Indigenous women formed the Busy Beavers chapter of the Homemakers Club in 1942. | Bridget Moran | 10 | 1988 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter SixFrom: Rooms |
Set in 2021 in Montreal, this final chapter explores the question of how to make a writing life, and how the author has ended up where they are in life. It continues to examine the concepts of … | Sina Queyras | 34 | 2022 | $3.40 Add |
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From Chapter SixFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes her five years at the Lejac residential school. | Bridget Moran | 5 | 1988 | $0.50 Add |
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From Chapter SixteenFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chaper, Mary John describes how the Indian Act shaped daily life in the Stoney Creek community, focusing on alcohol restrictions from her childhood through the 1960s. | Bridget Moran | 5 | 1988 | $0.50 Add |
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From Chapter TenFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes her marriage to Lazare John. | Bridget Moran | 5 | 1988 | $0.50 Add |
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From Chapter ThirteenFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John recounts how in 1934, a man in her community died from consuming contaminated home brew. She discusses the absence of government support for Indigenous families … | Bridget Moran | 3 | 1988 | $0.30 Add |
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From Chapter Three: Settling InFrom: Captured Hearts |
Chapter Three focuses on how these women and their husbands settled back into civilian life in New Brunswick after the war. It focuses on the hardships, isolation, cultural and religious … | Melynda Jarratt | 20 | 2008 | $2.00 Add |
