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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Seller Inventory # 003157
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First English. SUBTITLED : ` The Diary of Henriette Dessaulles, 1874 - 1881 '. These 344 pages first appeared in French in 1971. Ms, Hawke did the translation. Read more about : Aunt Leman, Mozart's Farewell, day-girl, Rosalie Laframboise, Jose Buckley, Le Devoir, Beloeil, sugaring-off,worship, confession, rosaries, convent, and Madame Saint-Jacques. Dessaulles was born in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. Book won the 1986 Canada Council Award. Cond : Paper wrapper is dark blue with cream coloured lettering. Front cover artwork is a painted portrait of Henritte - aged fourteen. Very light edge wear. Colours bright, binding tight. No names, marks, creases nor tears. Almost collectible !! Quote (p. 142) : " Diaries are in fashion and there's many a secret lying about, Augustine's and Emma's diaries have been seized. The nuns were indiscreet enough to read them and carried their despotism to the point of burning them without consulting the unfortunate authors. People's rights receive ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 011120
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: NF. Diary of a Quebec girl, romantic, idealistic and witty. Translated by Liedewy Hawke. Bound in signatures. Seller Inventory # 1051509