Annie Leake Tuttle was born in Nova Scotia in 1839 and died there in 1934, yet her search for education and self-support took her far afield. During her life she filled important positions from Newfoundland to British Columbia, as an educator of teachers and as the matron of a Methodist rescue home for Chinese immigrant women who had worked as prostitutes. Her autobiography paints a vivid picture of the joys and hardships of growing up on a pioneer farm and documents her spiritual and educational quests and conquests. In addition, readers see the independence and strength of character that enable Annie Tuttle to take on family obligations that fall to an unmarried daughter and sister, and to meet the challenges of step-motherhood, the adjustments of aging and ultimately the prospect of death.
Marilyn Färdig Whiteley gently frames Tuttle’s autobiography by placing it into social and historical context. She delineates the way in which Annie claimed her identity as she began to record her life story and demonstrates how her evangelical faith enabled her to show, in her narrative, that “One above” was always “working for the best,” helping her in the work she was intended to do.
In The Life of Annie Leake Tuttle: Working for the Best, we find a rich collection of the writings of an articulate woman who shows herself to be both ordinary and extraordinary. It is a fascinating chronicle of the spiritual and secular life of an independent and spirited woman in early Canada.
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- Includes bibliographical references
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.42/092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn-ns
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- 9780889205598
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- HQ1455.T87
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- A3 1999eb
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- 1 electronic text (xvii, 147 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Illustrations 12
- Introduction 20
- 1 The Simple Life, 1839–1849 29
- 2 Two Homes, 1849–1856 35
- 3 Turning Points, 1856–1858 45
- 4 Serious Undertakings, 1858–1866 55
- 5 Above My Highest Dreams, 1866–1887 73
- 6 Remarkable Years, 1887–1895 85
- 7 A New Position, 1895–1902 111
- 8 Waiting on the Lord, 1902–1907 119
- 9 A Place to Call Home,1907–1917 128
- 10 Time Enough, 1917–1934 139
- Epilogue, 1934 156
- Children of Thomas Leake and Olevia Lockhart 158
- Annie Leake Tuttle—Chronology 159
- Sources 161