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Author : Mignon Sauber
Release : 1965
Genre : Illegitimacy
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Book Synopsis Experiences of the Unwed Mother as a Parent by : Mignon Sauber
Download or read book Experiences of the Unwed Mother as a Parent written by Mignon Sauber. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mignon Sauber
Release : 1965
Genre : Illegitimacy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Experiences of the Unwed Mother as a Parent by : Mignon Sauber
Download or read book Experiences of the Unwed Mother as a Parent written by Mignon Sauber. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tracy Kasaboski
Release : 2018-09-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Cowkeeper's Wish by : Tracy Kasaboski
Download or read book The Cowkeeper's Wish written by Tracy Kasaboski. This book was released on 2018-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.
Author : Mignon Sauber
Release : 1965
Genre : Illegitimacy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Experiences of the Unwed Mother as a Parent by : Mignon Sauber
Download or read book Experiences of the Unwed Mother as a Parent written by Mignon Sauber. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Petrie
Release : 2013-04-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Gone to an Aunt's by : Anne Petrie
Download or read book Gone to an Aunt's written by Anne Petrie. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty or forty years ago, everybody knew what that phrase meant: a girl or a young, unmarried woman had gotten herself pregnant. She was “in trouble.” She had brought indescribable shame on herself and her family. In those days it was unthinkable that she would have her child and keep it. Instead she had to hide. Most likely she would be sent away to a home for unwed mothers, where she would stay in secrecy until her baby was born and given up for adoption. “Gone to an aunt’s” was the usual cover story, a fiction that everyone understood but no on talked about –until now. In Gone to an Aunt’s, journalist and long-time television host Anne Petrie takes us back into these homes for unwed mothers. Most cities in Canada had at least one home, several as many as five or six, most of them run by religious organizations. Here, in institutional settings, the girls were kept out of sight until their time was up and they could return to the world as if nothing had happened. Seven women –including the author – recount their experiences in Gone to an Aunt’s, talking openly, some for the first time, about how they got pregnant; the reaction of their parents, friends, boyfriends, and lovers; why they wound up in a home; and how they managed to cope with its rules and regulations –no last names, no talking about the past –and the promise of salvation that could come only through work and prayer. Gone to an Aunt’s is a profoundly moving and compassionate –even alarming – account. It comes as a reminder that we not get too wistful for the supposedly innocent times before the sexual revolution. That innocence, Petrie shows vividly, was a charade made believable only because the thousands of girls who had broken the rules were hidden away.
