Annis pratt biography of william hill
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Tending to Place: Home and Relationships in Jane of Lantern Hill
In The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly writes that all of L.M. Montgomery’s heroines exhibit a fierce love of home, often several homes. This love of home is echoed in other Montgomery scholarship, particularly that which has focused on the roles of place and nature.1 In Montgomery’s Jane of Lantern Hill (), hereafter Jane, there are two significant spaces: Toronto and Prince Edward Island (PEI). Toronto’s urban elements and class expectations restrict Jane’s ability to tend to the domestic, thus affecting her ability to turn this space into a meaningful place. In contrast, PEI offers a rural, loving environment where Jane thrives. In this article, we trace the narrative concepts of home and place, and argue that, through her tending to space and to relationships, Jane “grow[s] down” (Pratt 30) toward a domestic-centred, middle-class womanhood—which she desires. As Jane begins tending to
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Bethany huddled in her cloak and crouched against the stone vägg. All night long, there hadn’t been a sound from the prisoner in the next cell. What had she felt, underneath all of those pounding soldiers? Was she still alive? She knew all about pleasuring, having watched the barnyard animals and listened to older girls boast about their exploits, but what had happened to the girl in the next cell seemed just the opposite. How could so much horror and pain come out of life&#;s great joy, which was how lovemaking had always been defined for her? Worse, this might very well happen to her. If they hadn’t thought she was a boy, she would have been raped too. She shuddered at the realization.
Well versed in her community&#;s teachings about survival, she pulled herself from her terror to consider her situation. They thought she was a boy; she&#;d best stick to that, or else. If anyone asked, she’d be Ben, a Marshlander raised by the Fisher people. But not a word about Cedar Haven; that
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FOOTNOTES 1. Jayne Pratt Lovelace, The Pratt Dictionay Revised Edition {Chandler, AZ, Ancestor House, } 2. Henry Bond, Genealogies Families and Descendants of the early settlers of Watertown Massachusetts {Boston, NEH&G, } Ibid 5. J. H. Temple, History of Framingham Massachusetts early known as Danforth Farms with a genealogical register {Town of Framingham, } 6. Ibid 24 7. Ibid 8. William Biglow, History of Sherborn Massachusetts from its incorporation MDCLXX to the end of the Year MDCCCXXX including that of Framingham & Holliston so far as they were constituted parts of that town {Milford, Balles & Stacy }, 9. Temple, & Middlesex PR Administration William Barry, History of Framingham including the plantation from to the present time with a appendix containing a notice of first proprietors {Boston, James Monroe & Co., ) 11 . Ibid printed VR Sherborn, MA Ibid, Worcester MA PR Administration Inventory of his estate dated 16 Nov. {Barry ) (Middlesex PR:#) Sherborn MA printed VR, Fra