No Place for a Woman: The Life and Newfoundland Stories of Ella Manuel

Download or read book No Place for a Woman: The Life and Newfoundland Stories of Ella Manuel written by Antony Berger and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young woman, the late Ella Manuel left the busy shipping community of Lewisporte, Newfoundland, for the wider world in the 1920s, but eventually returned to the island, as a single mother, to settle in Bonne Bay. An accomplished writer, broadcaster, journalist, advocate for peace, and staunch feminist, Manuel would leave an indelible mark on the culture she documented and celebrated in her work. Here, biographer Antony Berger expertly chronicles the life of Ella Manuel and incorporates unpublished radio scripts and brilliant extracts from her private journals to bring Manuel to the page in her own words. Brimming with insight and wit, No Place for a Woman? opens an illuminating window on life in twentieth-century Newfoundland, and preserves the work of a truly original Newfoundlander.