Pedestal: A Women's Liberation Newspaper
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is part of: Pedestal
issued: 2016-11-10
issued: 1972-03
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extent: 16 pages
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note: A WOMEN S LIBERATION NEWSPAPER, VANCOUVER,, BC VOLTZN0.3 /AARON \9JZ iNlEPisRTmt^L WOMEN'S D4Y A KZH8 0%m m$ne§> She and her sister talk of their mother and their childhood on those rare occasions when they see each other. They are beginning now that they are in their forties to be able to talk to each other without rancour. Their mother was a thin-skinned, passionate girl who thought of herself as being sensitive and idealistic. She had read all of Dickens and often compared herself to David Copperfield'-s wife, who' in her childlike way could not manage the housekeeping books. After the first blissful years of her marriage it was brought home to her that her husband was sleeping around, betraying her, his marriage vows, his children and God in heaven, and she cracked up, or rather in, and slipped into a fantasy life where she committed many amusing follies. And some not so amusing. Their father's family, his sisters and their husbands, told him that his wife should be confined. He hesitated because of the Talk and because he had a tender heart. In the months while he hesitated she one night walked in her nightgown down the railway track. She had risen at dawn before the others in the'household were awake, and slipped out barefoot. When she was missed, the searchers set off and soon found her, because her apparel was scant enough to invite attention, and early workmen pointed along her route. This was a minor folly. Another time their mother emptied the contents of her bureau drawer out of her upstairs bedroom window. She had begun pitching out the furniture when she was stopped. "She always had a good reason for those things she did," their aunt whispered thirty years later. "That time she was giving all her ., possessions to the poor, like Jesus said. She was so happy doing it I hated to tell her to stop, but we couldn't have the chairs breaking." Another minor. Those sent to serve their mother became enemies. They interfered with her missions, which changed from…
note: Vol. 4. no. 3; March 1972
has type: Newspapers
spatial: British Columbia
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0340848
language: English
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Vancouver Women's Caucus
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source: Original Format: Simon Fraser University. Archives and Records Management
subject: Women's rights--Periodicals
subject: Feminism--Periodicals
type: Text