Companions of the Peace: diaries and letters of Monica Storrs, 1931-1939
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1. Verfasser: Storrs, Monica (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto University of Toronto Press c1999
Schriftenreihe:North American immigrant letters, diaries and oral histories
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-235) and index
"In 1929 a cultured English gentlewoman arrived in the barely settled wilderness of northern British Columbia as an Anglican missionary, intending to assuage her sense of duty by staying for one year. She stayed for twenty-one. The years covered by Monica Storrs's journal entries (1931-9) were at times unbearably hard, the depression compounding what was already a demanding existence. She and the group of women she lived with, the Companions of the Peace, were sent out as 'missionaries of empire.' As the journals progress, Storrs's droll British wit persists but her imperialistic attitude softens as her work draws her into the lives around her. Expanding on the initial mandate to start Sunday schools, foster contact with women, and perform church services, she became involved in assembling libraries, lending money for seed grain, financing medical assistance, and organizing theatrical performances and poetry contests. After her death even the non-British inhabitants of the Peace River district described her as 'one of us.'"--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 246 p.)
ISBN:1442673168
9780802044747
9780802082541
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