Description
Book SynopsisProvides an account of Wilfred Grenfell - his idiosyncracies, his attempts to meet the needs of the community, his rescue from a floating ice pan, his marriage - and brings to life the Newfoundlanders with whom the author worked.
Trade Review"An important link that has been missing in the literature on Grenfell and the Grenfell Mission. Rompkey has admirably researched Miss Luther's background, giving key insights into her character. His scholarship is unfailing and extensive. A job well done!" Paula Laverty, Guest Curator for Matting Season: Hooked Mats of the Grenfell Mission, Museum for Textiles, Toronto "A significant, new primary source with substantioal contextual support. Rompkeys scholarship and methodology are sound, his research on Jessie Luther conprehensive. Her journal also stands as a vivid portrait of a woman's frontier experience very much rooted in its time and place." Ellen Easton McLeod, author of In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild
