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Islanders - Helen R. Hull
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An excellent book, and one well worth reading. My review, such as it is, can be found here:
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"...With age, she begins to conceive of women as islanders, economically and socially isolated, who watch their men leave—to hunt for gold, to fight wars, to get an education...At sixty-three she thinks, "I haven't a roof nor a penny. I'm too old to go out and work: folks wouldn't have me, strong as I am. Shame, more bitter than anything she had ever tasted, curled the tips of her nerves, choked in her throat...This has happened because I am a woman."..."
(H.S., p. 110)
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