Island Maid - Voices of Outport Women

Sheilagh O'Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling from Bonavista Bay to the Great Northern Peninsula and to the communities of the south coast. The women they interviewed shared unique life stories filled with hard work, love, heartbreak, and family.

Island Maid documents, with photos and words, the thoughts and lives of these women. It is also the chronicle of a journey, a feminist road-trip taken during one of the most tumultuous times in Newfoundland's modern history.

WINNER of the 2011 Rogers Communication Award for Non-Fiction.

About the author

Rhonda Pelley is a Newfoundland writer and artist whose work has been seen in galleries and publications locally and internationally. She lives in St. John's with her partner Frank Barry and her two cats Henry and Lucy.

Product details

• Authors: Rhonda Pelley
• Assisted by: O& (Photographs), Sheilagh O'Leary (Photographs)
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2010
• EAN: 9781550813258
• ISBN: 978-1-55081-325-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 216 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 240 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories