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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary J. AndersonPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.765kg ISBN: 9780889204379ISBN 10: 0889204373 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 30 April 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsThe Life Writings of Mary Baker McQuesten: Victorian Matriarch, edited by Mary J. Anderson Introduction Preface Abbreviations Acknowledgements McQuesten-Baker Family Tree Photographs Mary Baker's Wedding Trousseau and Itemized Bill Part 1 Mary Baker McQuesten's Biography Mary Jane Baker's Childhood Mary Baker's Marriage to Isaac B. Questen Mary Baker McQuesten's Widowhood and Matriarchy: Six Children and Lives of Genteel Poverty The Restoration of the Family Part 2 Mary Baker McQuesten's Work with the Presbyterian Missionary Societies Postcolonial Considerations Selections from Mary B. McQuesten's Missionary Society Addresses Part 3 The Victorian Narrative Mary Baker McQuesten's Letters as Literature: A Victorian Narrative Personal Letters as Life Writing The McQuestens and Their Victorian World Photographs Mary Baker McQuesten's Letters Letters 1873-1903 Letters 1904-1908 Letters 1909-1934 Eulogy by Rev. Beverley Ketchen Photographs Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsMary J. Anderson has raised the blinds on several windows at Whitehern -- Hamilton's historic residence -- revealing to the public eye the private life of a complex family. Using the letters of Mary Baker McQuesten in the Whitehern archives, Anderson has woven a narrative so skillfully that it reads like Victorian fiction.''--Rev. Dr. T. Melville Bailey Anderson has produced a valuable edition of Mary Baker McQuesten's letters and life writings, employing a careful selection of 150 documents to illustrate the life of this Victorian matriarch and her family, her social and religious work, and her unique perspective on the culture and society of Hamilton and Canada during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Fully annotated, these letters and life writings are supplemented by biographical information about Mary and her family, pictures and genealogies, and a discussion of personal letters as a literary genre. This volume will be invaluable to both historians and scholars of women's studies, and would be of interest to any reader who is eager to encounter a powerful and engaging personality.''--Elisabeth Anne MacDonald-Murray Canadian Book Review Annual, 2006 Some of the characters in the McQuesten family saga come straight out of a Gothic novel: the wicked stepmother, the alcoholic wastrel, the sacrificial maiden, the suspected suicide and the formidable Presbyterian matriarch.''--Regina Haggo The Hamilton Spectator, May 15, 2004 Operating on a tier below other reformers such as suffragist Nellie McClung (a fellow critic of the Great War), parliamentarian Agnes McPhail, and WCTU leader Laetitia Youmans, Mary Baker McQuesten represents many a tireless local activist affected by maternal feminist convictions that women must clean up the mess men had made of society, for the sake of everybody's children.''--Jan Noel Through her expert and detailed analysis of the McQuesten letters, Mary J. Anderson lovingly places them in context -- of the family, the burgeoning city of Hamilton, the nation, and of Western society in general...The letters are riveting reading.''--Brian Henley Mary J. Anderson has performed a valuable service for historians, women's studies scholars, and students of autobiography and cultural history by editing and disseminating the letters of Mary Baker McQuesten: public woman, family matriarch, social hostess, and above all, powerful personality. Mary McQuesten's letters form a fascinating archive of life in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Ontario.''--Lorraine York Mary J. Anderson has performed a valuable service for historians, women s studies scholars, and students of autobiography and cultural history by editing and disseminating the letters of Mary Baker McQuesten: public woman, family matriarch, social hostess, and above all, powerful personality. Mary McQuesten s letters form a fascinating archive of life in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Ontario. --Lorraine York, McMaster University Mary J. Anderson has performed a valuable service for historians, women s studies scholars, and students of autobiography and cultural history by editing and disseminating the letters of Mary Baker McQuesten: public woman, family matriarch, social hostess, and above all, powerful personality. Mary McQuesten s letters form a fascinating archive of life in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Ontario. - Lorraine York, McMaster University Author InformationMary J Anderson received her PhD in English from McMaster University and is an independent writer and scholar. She works and lives near Hamilton, Ontario. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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