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Fiction Historical

Broken Barrier

by (author) Grace Helen Mowat

introduction by Mary B. McGillivray

Publisher
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Initial publish date
Oct 2016
Category
Historical
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459504608
    Publish Date
    Oct 2016
    List Price
    $16.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781459504592
    Publish Date
    Oct 2016
    List Price
    $16.95

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Broken Barrier is a taut love story portraying two bookish people thrown together in the mid-twentieth century on Staten Island, New York. Lydia Allen, descendant of Loyalist refugees who left America in 1783 at the end of the American Revolution, struggles to preserve the rural lifestyle and handsome estate that her ancestors built in eighteenth-century New Brunswick. She goes to work for a rich young American as a housekeeper in order to make money to save her estate.

About the authors

Born and raised in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, GRACE HELEN MOWAT (1875-1964) was the author of several books. Mowat published Broken Barrier in 1951, the same year in which she received an honorary degree from the University of New Brunswick.

MARY McGILLIVRAY is a professor of English literature at St. Francis Xavier University, where she specializes in Canadian literature.

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MARY B. McGILLIVRAY is a professor of English literature at St. Francis Xavier University, where she specializes in Canadian literature.

Mary B. McGillivray's profile page