Mattie's Story

by Margaret A Westlie

Overview

Set on Prince Edward Island, the home of Anne of Green Gables, in the mid-19th century, Mattie's Story is based on a story told by the author's grandmother about her own grandparents. Mattie's Story relates a year in the life of Mattie Cameron, a descendant of the Selkirk Settlers who first came to the Island in 1803. Mattie's Story is fiction with perennial themes: relationships (mother and daughter, husband and wife, friend and friend); marriage, maturity, and responsibility; women's lives (marriage, childbirth, death and remarriage); life in a community
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780993604003
Publisher:	Selkirk Stories
Publication date:	01/10/2014
Series:	Scottish Pioneers , #1
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Margaret Westlie is a native of Halifax with close family ties to Prince Edward Island, where her family immigrated from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, in 1803. She is a graduate of the Victoria General Hospital School of Nursing and of Dalhousie University in Halifax. She discovered her talent for writing almost by accident, while completing a degree in church music, and immediately switched her degree plan to English, receiving a Master's Degree in English with a Professional Writing Emphasis in Prose and Poetry from the University of Missouri. She played violin with the Philarmonia of Kansas City and has sung with a number of choral groups, including the Confederation Centre Singers and Akkord in Charlottetown. She is also an accomplished pencil portraitist. She makes her home in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, where her novels are set.