Ana Historic by Daphne Marlatt

Author:Daphne Marlatt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
Published: 2013-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

‘A one-room frame building, 18 x 40 feet, with a clapboard exterior and cedar shake roof . . .’

his eyes staring from a vicarage window at wind-flattened heath, waiting for her to explain

‘The building was provided with two 12-pane double sash windows in each of three walls, wood stove at the back for heat, brass lamps on wall brackets against the winter dark, fog or rain . . .’

imagine him holding her letter up towards the light with that look on his face: Ana, my wayward child, you are straying close to animism, souls in trees and other pagan notions. you, the daughter of a man of God. explain yourself.

‘Fifteen children were required by the provincial government to start a school, and a family of Millers (6), Alexanders (2), two half-breed children, a Kanaka boy who had jumped ship from Honolulu, and a family of Pattersons (4) made up the magic number.’

accounting for — the numbers must add up — but there was no accounting for (nothing had prepared her for) these children of millhands, loggers, and stevedores. children familiar with eagles and bears, with killing accident, with salmonberry and vanilla leaf. children who knew nothing of Blair’s Sermons, The Young Lady’s Friend, or Shelley and Keats.

‘I find myself in a new world, Father, and that has made all the difference.’

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