![]() ![]() ![]() Bentley, whose first name we never learn, despairs of Philip (her husband), who is becoming ever more remote. ![]() The couple has just moved to yet another small town, "Horizon". Bentley, a Protestant minister's wife, writes journal (or diary) entries on a regular basis the time span is just over a year (from 8 April 1939 to, if the weekday noted with each entry is assumed to be correct). Set during the Great Depression in the fictional mid-western prairie town of Horizon (the precise location of Horizon is not provided, and could conceivably be in either Canada or the United States), it deals with the experiences of a minister's wife, her husband and their struggles and hardships. Its 1957 Canadian re-issue, by McClelland & Stewart, as part of their New Canadian Library line, began its canonization, mostly in university classrooms. As For Me and My House is a novel by Canadian author Sinclair Ross, first published in 1941 by the American company Reynal and Hitchcock, with little fanfare. ![]()
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