Miss Confederation

The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles

Anne McDonald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2017
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3967-3 (ISBN)

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Amidst the grand and heady spectacle of the balls, banquets, and events of the Confederation Conferences of October 1864, Mercy Coles was seeking adventure and love. She wasn’t concerned with writing for posterity, or with propriety. Miss Confederation shows history being made, without the stiffness and polish time creates.

History without the stiffness and polish time creates.

Canada’s journey to Confederation kicked off with a bang — or rather, a circus, a civil war (the American one), a small fortune’s worth of champagne, and a lot of making love — in the old-fashioned sense. Miss Confederation offers a rare look back, through a woman’s eyes, at the men and events at the centre of this pivotal time in Canada’s history.

Mercy Anne Coles, the daughter of PEI delegate George Coles, kept a diary of the social happenings and political manoeuvrings as they affected her and her desires. A unique historical document, her diary is now being published for the first time, offering a window into the events that led to Canada’s creation, from a point of view that has long been neglected.

Anne McDonald is an award-winning author. Her novel To the Edge of the Sea won the Saskatchewan First Book Award. Her play Lullabies and Cautions was recently showcased at the 2016 Spring Festival of New Plays. Her work has appeared in literary journals, Canada’s History, and on CBC Radio. Anne teaches theatre and creative writing. She lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Foreword by Christopher Moore
Preface
One
Miss Confederation, Mercy Anne Coles
Two
Charlottetown: The Circus, Champagne, and Union
Three
The Journey Begins: The Lure of Travel, the New — and Leonard Tilley
Four
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: the “Failed,” the Grand Success, or the Drunken Fiasco of the Government Ball
Five
Diphtheria
Six
The Temptation of John A. Macdonald
Seven
What She Said –— A Woman’s Point of View
Eight
Montreal Sightseeing and the “Eighth Wonder of the World”
Nine
Ottawa the Unseemly

Ten
Sightseeing in Toronto, 1864 Style

Eleven
Niagara Falls
Twelve
Family and Travel
Thirteen
Going Home
Fourteen
Confederation Suitors
Fifteen
Daughters and Fathers
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Appendix
“Reminiscences of Confederation Days:
Extracts from a Diary Kept by Miss Mercy
A. Coles When She Accompanied Her
Father, the Late Hon. George Coles, to
the Confederation Conferences at Quebec,
Montreal and Ottawa in 1864.”
Notes on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.07.2017
Vorwort	Christopher Moore
Zusatzinfo	notes; Bibliography; Index; 21 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4597-3967-1 / 1459739671
ISBN-13	978-1-4597-3967-3 / 9781459739673
Zustand	Neuware