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  • ISBN 9781990445316
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Memorial University Press
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Through the voices of vivid characters, witty and moving dialogue, and poetically drawn landscapes and seascapes, Margaret Duley created a Newfoundland stage upon which she explored existential and universal questions. Duley won international recognition with four novels, and though lauded by leading critics abroad, her appreciation at home was comparatively muted. In her native St. John's, Duley's strong female protagonists prompted speculation and gossip about her own life as a single, questioning woman.

Skillfully interwoven with historical events, including the devastating impact of the first World War, the women's suffrage movement, the Depression, the loss of Newfoundland's self-government, and Confederation with Canada, Extraordinary Passages explores the influence of these critical times on Duley's life and writing. Within these pages, Margaret Duley is freed from flattened descriptions of her as a wealthy jeweller's daughter, unearthing the origins of her lifelong search for a fairer society and her deep appreciation for her island home. Disillusioned with Christian institutions that had justified war and entrapped women, she sought new answers at home and abroad in her search for spirituality, feminism, and anti-militarism.

Margot I. Duley is an historian and Margaret's niece. Reflecting on personal knowledge, novels, letters, and a wide array of other sources, Margot I. Duley draws a lively portrait of the brilliant, complex and indomitable woman regarded as a precursor to modern feminist writers.
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Margot I. Duley received a B.A.(Hons) from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, an M.A. from Duke University, and a Ph.D. in British Imperial and South Asian history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is Professor Emerita of History and Women's Studies, Eastern Michigan University, and Dean Emerita, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Springfield. Her interests include the history of women's movements, especially India, the United States and Newfoundland, and international women's alliances. She is co-editor and chief contributor to the Cross-Cultural Study of Women, and author of Where Once Our Mothers Stood We Stand: Women's Suffrage in Newfoundland 1890-1925, studies of Armine Gosling, the Newfoundland suffrage leader, Nurse Mona Loder, who served in France throughout World War.