CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface: Methodology and Acknowledgements ix
4. Genealogy Charts xv
5. Introduction: Situating Margaret Iris Duley, Her Life and Work 1
6. Chapter 1 Her Complex Family Setting 11
7. Chapter 2 Her Parents’ Marriage and Her Childhood in St. John’s 35
8. Chapter 3 English Interlude: Drama, Suffrage and Youthful Explorations 65
9. Chapter 4 The Great War through Margaret’s Eyes 82
10. Chapter 5 Finding Her Own Way, 1920–1936 116
11. Chapter 6 Margaret’s Spiritual Journey in Life and Literature 154
12. Chapter 7 The Eyes of the Gull: Creativity, Folklore and Finances 169
13. Chapter 8 Cold Pastoral: Romanticism, Theosophy and Competing Realities 196
14. Chapter 9 Novelty on Earth: As Biography and Tale 217
15. Chapter 10 Highway to Valour: As Biography, Theology and Tale 241
16. Chapter 11 Winds Variable: War, Dislocation and Highway’s Release 261
17. Chapter 12 Critical Times, 1941–43: Novelty’s Publication and Return Home 289
18. Chapter 13 Anti-War Writing and the “Lost Novel” 311
19. Chapter 14 The End of Eras, 1945–52 328
20. Chapter 15 Overseas Interregnum, 1952–53 341
21. Chapter 16 Reclaiming Newfoundland 363
22. Chapter 17 Her Fading Days and Dénouement 398
23. Postscript 406
24. Notes 408
25. Bibliography: Primary Sources 466
26. Index 487