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HAVENT ANY NEWS
RUBYS LETTERS FROM THE FIFTIES |
| By: |
Edna Staebler, Marlene Kadar |
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Electronic book text |
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£13.19 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0889206007 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780889206007 |
| Publisher: |
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2006 |
| Synopsis: |
Ruby wrote letters home almost every week....She wrote anything that came into her head: about her children and Fred, her housekeeping, food, clothes, her friends, activities, schemes for making money, her dreams for the future....Her letters, nave, intimate and lively, were always optimistic or poignant. Wed read them to each other on the phone or pass them around. Often we saved them. So writes Edna Staebler in her introduction to this edited collection of her sister Rubys letters from the fifties. In 1957 when Edna first began to collect and edit these letters she did so simply because she was sure that others would enjoy reading them as much as her own family did. Over fifty years later, the letters remain a joy to read and reclaim the ordinary voice of a housewife. Remarkably, these letters echo themes academics want to isolate in order to analyze womens roles in the modern world drifting (life just happened to me) and contingency (womens lives depend on relationships), for example, as well as the balance between family and work. As a fine example of womens life writing they also illustrate the literary patterns of overt and covert stories and of textual and subtextual meaning. Havent Any News: Rubys Letters from the Fifties includes an Afterword by Marlene Kadar, Associate Professor of Humanities at York University and a leading expert on womens life writing. All those concerned with womens studies and with the social history of twentieth-century Canada will find this book of enormous interest and it will delight Edna Staebler fans everywhere. |
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Canada |
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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