Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps and Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Creating This Place: An Introduction 3
6. Activist Anglicans and Rectors’ Wives: The Impact of Class and Gender on Women’s Church Work in St John’s 25
7. A Class unto Itself: Phebe Florence Miller’s Outport Literary Salon 47
8. Julia Salter Earle: Seeking Social Justice 71
9. Below Stairs: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century St John’s 89
10. Armine Nutting Gosling: A Full and Useful Life 114
11. “She Knows Who She is”: Educating Girls to Their Place in Society 146
12. “It’s Up to the Women”: Gender, Class, and Nation Building in Newfoundland, 1935–1945 179
13. Thrift and the Good Child Citizen: The Junior Thrift Clubs in Confederation-Era Newfoundland 202
14. “I Am Very Badly in Need of Help”: Promises and Promissory Notes in Women’s Letters to J.R. Smallwood 221
15. Notes 243
16. Bibliography 297
17. Index 327
18. Contributors 337