First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground with its
fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set
during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning
novel follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who
takes her family from drought-ridden southern Alberta to a new life
in the Peace River region. Here her daughter Poppy grows up in a
community characterized by harmonious interactions between the
local Metis and newly arrived European settlers. Still, there is
tension between mother and daughter when Poppy becomes involved
with a Metis lover. This novel expands the patriarchal canon of
Canadian prairie fiction by depicting the agency of a successful
female settler and, as noted by Dorothy Livesay, was ""one of the
first, if not the first Canadian novel wherein the plight of the
Native Indian and the Metis is honestly and painfully recorded.""
The afterword by Carole Gerson and Janice Dowson provides
substantial information about author Christine van der Mark and
situates her under-acknowledged book within the contexts of
Canadian social, literary, and publishing history.
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