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THE MARRIAGE BED.

By: Beresford-Howe, Constance.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1981, first edition.:

Seller ID: 20640

232 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0771595549 "Meet Anne Graham, mother of three-year-old Martha and one-year-old Hugh, young, attractive, heavily pregnant - and alone. Things have not worked out at all the way Anne intended. Her teenage plans of marrying a rich Older Man who would put her through university were thwarted when Max, the first suitable candidate to come along, married Anne's mother, Billie, instead. Then her promising academic career was cut sh o r t w h e n her first real romance led to an unexpected pregnancy and an early marriage. Finally, ...
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DRUNK WITH LOVE.

By: Gilchrist, Ellen.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1987

Edition: First British Edition

Seller ID: 19767

ISBN: 0571146716

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

239 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "Readers of Gilchrist's stories will find much to celebrate in this new collection, as many favourite characters reappear. The title story features former bandit Nora Jane Whittington who has moved to California and is now expecting twins. Nora's part-time lover, Freddy Harwood, is here too, metamorphosed into a reluctant hero in a hilarious and moving tale. Here too is Rhoda, growing up to experience teenage love in 'The Expansion of the Universe' and then motherhood in 'Adoration'. Crystal Weis grows too, in 'Traceleen at Dawn', this outrageous Southern belle...
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MODELING FOR MOTHERHOOD: HEIR CONDITIONING THE MODERN MRS.

By: Heinz, Doris Hale and Bolt, Katherine Smith. Foreword by Frederic M. Loomis, M.D.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1946

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 30190

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

74 pp, oblong large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w line drawings (VERY 1940s!) by Doris Hale Heinz. "Underlying the amusing text and gay illustrations are sound advice and facts, carefully checked by prominent obstetricians. (This book) will guide you through the problems of pregnancy and start you off to becoming your own slim and attractive self again." Advice on maternity fashions, exercise, posture, diet and how to keep 'hubby' in the process! Endpapers are made up of four blank charts: Your Appointments and Orders; Your Personal Record; Equipment Need; Expenditures - Spent and Owing...
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THE ICE IS SINGING.

By: Rogers, Jane.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 15718

ISBN: 0571147720

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

153 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "(T)he story of a woman on the run: from her children, and from herself. Late one February night Marion leaves her baby twins in the care of her sister, and drives away. She drives north into a world of snow, pressing over blocked and snowbound hills, relentlessly, pursued by a tide of memories, discordant emotions, and visions of her family that threaten to engulf her. Her journal is the record of that journey; but the last thing Marion wants to face is her own life. In the journal she takes refuge in writing stories, other people's stories - and through and b...
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THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY. VOLUME II: 1910-1921.

By: Rubio, Mary & Waterston, Elizabeth, editors. (L.M. Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1987

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 29281

ISBN: 0195405862

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

443 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, maps. The second volume of 'The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery' "records a time of great change and upheaval both in Montgomery's life and in society. When she wrote the first entry in this volume she had recently become a world-famous author, having published 'Anne of Green Gables' in 1908. Here we become privy to her response to the death of her grandmother, who had restricted her life severely; her marriage and honeymoon trip to Scotland and England; and her departure from Prince Edward Island to the new restrictions of her life as the wi...
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THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY. VOLUME III: 1921-1929.

By: Rubio, Mary & Waterston, Elizabeth, editors. (L.M. Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29282

ISBN: 0195409361

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

443 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, maps. The third volume of 'The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery' reveals "Montgomery in mature mid-life, (as) her personal and professional lives are becoming even more complex. (She) juggles the demands of motherhood, parish obligations, indifferent household help, grief at the loss of older friends and family, appeals by her PEI clan for advice and assistance - everyday struggles to balance a woman's social and domestic duties. There are also triumphs and trials more closely related to her position as a best-selling author: growing fame, the ...
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THE BOX GARDEN.

By: Shields, Carol.

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 1977, first edition.:

Seller ID: 20802

213 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0070825475 The award-winning Canadian author's second novel. "Until events run wildly out of hand, Charleen Forrest manages to cope with the uncertainties of a failed marriage, trying to liv e her own life and raise a son on her frugal income. She is not unaware of the hazards: 'family, banktellers, exhusband, landladies, bus drivers....men on the make who want her to lie back and accept (this is what you need, baby), friends w h o f e e l sorry for her'. Her resourcefulness is a delight; her uncanny observations and surpri...
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Keyword: Motherhood

THE MARRIAGE BED.

DRUNK WITH LOVE.

MODELING FOR MOTHERHOOD: HEIR CONDITIONING THE MODERN MRS.

THE ICE IS SINGING.

THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY. VOLUME II: 1910-1921.

THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY. VOLUME III: 1921-1929.

THE BOX GARDEN.