TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Norah Lillian
TI  - "I want to join your club": letters from rural children, 1900-1920 
T2  - Life writing series
SN  - 9780889207301
AV  - HQ792.C3 
U1  - 305.23/0971 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Waterloo, Ontario
PB  - Wilfrid Laurier University Press
KW  - Rural children
KW  - Canada
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Newfoundland and Labrador
KW  - Letters to the editor
KW  - Enfants en milieu rural
KW  - Correspondance
KW  - Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
KW  - Courrier des lecteurs
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Personal correspondence
N2  - "I am a girl, 13 years old, and a proper broncho buster. I can cook and do housework, but I just love to ride." In letters written to the children's pages of newspapers, we hear the clear and authentic voices of real children who lived in rural Canada and Newfoundland between 1900 and 1920. Children tell us about their families, their schools, jobs and communities and the suffering caused by the terrible costs of World War I. We read of shared common experiences of isolation, hard work, few amenities, limited educational opportunities, restricted social life and heavy responsibilities, but also of satisfaction over skills mastered and work performed. Though often hard, children's lives reflected a hopeful and expanding future, and their letters recount their skills and determination as well as family lore and community histories. Children both make and participate in history, but until recently their role has been largely ignored. In "I Want to Join Your Club," Lewis provides direct evidence that children's lives, like adults', have both continuity and change and form part of the warp and woof of the social fabric
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