In due season / Christine van der Mark ; afterword by Carole Gerson and Janice Dowson.

By:

Van der Mark, Christine [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Early Canadian literature seriesPublisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (ix, 354 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

177112072X
9781771120722
9781771120739
1771120738

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

813/.54 23

LOC classification:

PR9199.3.V3563 I6 2016eb

Other classification:

cci1icc
coll13

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EBSCOhost

Summary: First published in 1947, "In Due Season" broke new ground in its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this novel follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her family from drought-ridden southern Alberta to a new life in the Peace River region. Here her daughter Poppy grows up in a community characterized by harmonious interactions between the local Métis and newly arrived European settlers. Still, there is tension between mother and daughter when Poppy becomes involved with a Métis lover.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354).

Print version record.

First published in 1947, "In Due Season" broke new ground in its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this novel follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her family from drought-ridden southern Alberta to a new life in the Peace River region. Here her daughter Poppy grows up in a community characterized by harmonious interactions between the local Métis and newly arrived European settlers. Still, there is tension between mother and daughter when Poppy becomes involved with a Métis lover.

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