A Rebel for Her Time

ISBN: 177729374X

Author: Mossman, Marie

Condition: New

Product Description Della from East Cove: Schoolmarm, accidental midwife, battlefield nurse, lover...A refreshing and uplifting story of a young woman defying the norms of her 1900s rural Nova Scotia birth, and becoming the heroine in her own adventurous life."I loved this book. Della is a brave, inspiring, and risk-taking heroine, trading the safely of her rural Nova Scotian family for active war-time medical service." - Sue Kerr, author of Unlikely Stories of a Perfect Childhood"Mossman's attention to detail of matters medical during the First World War lends immediacy and authenticity to a compelling story set in a place and time with which we are no longer familiar." - Sara Williams, co-author of Growing Fruit In Northern Gardens About the Author Marie Mossman packed local stories and family secrets into her brain, when a child in Nova Scotia. She accompanied her parents on their drop-in visits to relatives and friends along winding main roads and dusty rural offshoots, by boat to island communities. The wistful stories she overheard mellowed in her heart. The more shocking ones remained in her brain. Elements of the childhood treasure trove have passed, transformed, into this novel. Ms. Mossman taught school and practised speech-language pathology. Success in a contest with a non-fiction piece, Gang of Three Canucks Hunts Peking Duck, encouraged her desire to write. She has participated in writing seminars, classes, and writing groups since 2010. She completed a series of articles for The Grapevine, a local newspaper. Her more recent research for A Rebel for Her Time led her beyond paper and interviews to World War I sites in France and Belgium. Since 2017, she has focused on research and the ephemeral skill of writing with honesty, interest, and grace.