Miss Confederation (eBook)

The Diary of Mercy Anne Coles

Anne McDonald (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
192 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3969-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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 A unique historical document, her diary is now being published for the first time, offering a window into the events that led to Canada's creation, from a point of view that has long been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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2017
• Vorwort: Christopher Moore
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abraham Lincoln • Charlottetown Conference • Emma Tupper • Fathers of Confederation • George Coles • Leonard Tilley • Margaret Gray Lord • Prince Edward Island • Quebec Conference
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3969-8 / 1459739698
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3969-7 / 9781459739697