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A Full House and Fine Singing features a selection of Sadie Harper Allen's liveliest diary entries and most colourful letters, chosen by social historian Mary Biggar Peck.
Illustrated with photographs and drawings, including some of Sadie's own, this book offers an authentic glimpse into the life of a young woman in turn-of-the-century Canada. In the 1890s, a girl in a small Canadian town like Shediac, New Brunswick, didn't have much to do - except tease boys, learn to draw and paint, go visiting on the train, and spend hilarious evenings playing parlour games and singing around the piano.
Throughout her teenage years, Sadie Harper kept a diary, faithfully or fitfully, depending on her physical and romantic health of her household duties. As a young woman, she wrote of her experiences at Mount Allison Ladies' College. Many years later, on a trip to England with her husband, University of Manitoba professor Frank Allen, Sadie regaled her mother and sisters with news of social engagements, London fashions and the people she encountered.
Foreword by Muriel McQueen Fergusson.
Part I - A Carefree Girlhood, 1890-1892
Part II - At Old Mount A, 1894
Part III - Pleasure and Sadness: The Wedding Year, 1895
Part IV - A Changing Life, 1896 and 1898 Part V - The Fullness of Time: Letters, 1912 and 1915.
Softcover - 250 pages - copyright 1992
Book 8177 A Full House and Fine Singing $24.95 plus $12.00 shipping within North America
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