Patricia Skidmore

Marjorie Her War Years

A British Home Child in Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

Sent away from her family and England to an isolated farm where she was at the mercy of a tyrannical "cottage mother," Marjorie Arnison had to learn to forget her identity in order to survive in her unfamiliar and hostile new home. It was only much later in her life that the memories of where she came from began to resurface.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781459741669
• ISBN-10: 1459741668
• Artikelnr.: 49396258

Autorenporträt

Patricia Skidmore is the daughter of a British child migrant. She lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction: There Is No One More Vulnerable Than a Child
Chapter 1: Winifred's Children
Chapter 2: A Difficult Year
Chapter 3:Bunny's Birthday
Chapter 4: Exiled: A One-Way Ticket to Nowhere
Chapter 5 : I Ain't Gonna Be a Farmer's Wife
Chapter 6: A Partial Eclipse
Chapter 7: Little Farmers
Chapter 8: Off to Fintry: Now What Did I Do Wrong?
Chapter 9: A Bad Home Is Better Than Any Institution
Chapter 10: Fintry or Fairbridge?
Chapter 11: For Now and Evermore
Chapter 12: I Think I Can ... Make it ...
Chapter 13: Bullies! It's Not Fair!
Chapter 14:Christmas Eve: Survival Is the Most Important Thing
Chapter 15: Why Would I Go Back? My Country Didn't Want Me
Afterword (Afterwards): Peace in Marjorie's Senior Years
Acknowledgements
Appendix A: Fairbridge the Founder
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index