Creating This Place: Women, Family, and Class in St John's, 1900-1950

The twentieth century witnessed both the formation of Newfoundland as a self-conscious national entity and the construction of distinct and self-aware middle and upper classes in its capital city. This interdisciplinary collection examines the key roles played by women in the creation of this state and society, and the essential influence that gender, ethnicity, and religion played in class relations.

Shifting class relations were formed in the salient political events of the first half of t...