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Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940â1944
Mary F. Williamson (Ed.)
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Description for Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940â1944
Hardback. When, in 1940, Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them for the duration of the war, no one knew how long it would last. Marie wrote over 150 letters to their mother, Margaret Sharpe, hoping to ease any concern. This title presents these letters which reflect the lives and concerns of a family. Editor(s): Williamson, Mary F.; Sharp, Tom. Num Pages: 408 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 33. Weight in Grams: 728.
The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys' mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased them into a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports. The letters brim with detail about family holidays, the financial implications of ... Read more
The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys' mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased them into a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports. The letters brim with detail about family holidays, the financial implications of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781554582662
SKU
V9781554582662
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Ref
99-1
About Mary F. Williamson (Ed.)
Mary F. Williamson is a retired fine-arts bibliographer and adjunct faculty in graduate art history at York University. She co-authored Art and Architecture in Canada (1991), and her recent writings on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century cookery have appeared in Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture (WLU Press, 2010) and The Edible City (2009). Tom Sharp is the younger of the ... Read more
Reviews for Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940â1944
``We know a great deal about the consequences of World War II in Europe, but in this wonderful book we discover an untold part of the story. Here's what life was like in Canada for three British children who came to escape the bombing and for the Toronto family that took them in. In letters written by the mother of ... Read more