{"product_id":"aleta-day-9781551113913","title":"Aleta Day","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Marion Beynon’s autobiographical novel \u003cem\u003eAleta Dey\u003c\/em\u003e is increasingly recognised as a small classic of early twentieth-century fiction. Beynon was a journalist and feminist much involved in public affairs in early twentieth-century Manitoba. In 1917, aged 33, she was forced to leave her job as a result of her open pacifism, and she soon moved to New York where she dropped out of the public eye.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAleta Dey\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1919, tells in plain and affecting prose the story of a girl growing up in Manitoba, becoming politically conscious, and falling in love with McNair, a man of much more conventional views. The First World War brings a crisis for them both after McNair enlists as a soldier. Though Beynon was a Canadian, her spare, emotionally open prose may have less in common with that of other Canadian writers of the time than it does with the style of contemporaneous western American women writers such as Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Like Cather’s \u003cem\u003eMy Antonia\u003c\/em\u003e, Beynon’s \u003cem\u003eAleta Dey\u003c\/em\u003e resonates with prairie simplicity, passion, and strength.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA COWARD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBABY BROTHER\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGOD IN THE STORM\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLIGHTNING\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSCHOOL IN TOWN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePUNISHMENT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE SPIRITUAL X-RAY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNED IS EXPELLED\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE STORM WIND AGAIN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAGNOSTICISM\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMcNAIR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA TILT ABOUT SOCIALISM\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA VISITOR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNED AGAIN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCOLIN REFUSES TO COME\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWOOING COLIN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE QUARREL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA DISCOVERY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA POOR FIGHTER\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePAULINE INTERVENES\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE CHURCH\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE BROKEN SPELL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMcNAIR’S STORY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWAR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHEN IT CAME HOME\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNED IN DIFFICULTIES\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCOLIN IN A FURY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFAREWELL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWAR PROFITEERS AND SOLDIERS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSOCIALISM OR CHRISTIANITY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMcNAIR’S LETTERS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTWO TELEGRAMS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE STRUGGLE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGETHSEMANE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOUT OF JAIL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAFTER AN INTERLUDE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMcNAIR GIVES WAY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHE FUNERAL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMcNAIR PASSES ON\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041304084823,"sku":"9781551113913","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551113913.jpg?v=1750949736","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aleta-day-9781551113913","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}