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Laurier Era e-book - based on real letters

Author(s): 
Dorothy Nixon

Threshold Girl is a free e-book in pdf format about an Anglo-Quebec student in 1911/12. It is based on real letters from the era.

The e-book, which has a child-labour and Two Solitudes theme, is posted at www.tighsolas.ca/page10.pdf.pdf

The background letters from spring and summer 1911 (lightly edited and annotated) are posted at www.tighsolas.ca/page12.pdf.pdf

Many family photos, both studio and 'snap' are also availabe on the blog Flo in the City- A work in progress. The letters, in their raw, original form are posted on www.tighsolas.ca (with a great deal of background).

Complete household accounts from 1883 to 1921 also exist.