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The Embroidered Tent: Five Gentlewomen in Early Canada
The Embroidered Tent Five Gentlewomen in Early Canada Author:Marian Fowler In this widely acclaimed study, Marian Fowler explores how the experience of wilderness and frontier create a psychic tension between the gentility of old-world "embroidery" and the rugged masculinity of "tent"-dwelling in the pioneering women of nineteenth-century Canada.