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Eldon House Diaries: Five Women's Views of the 19th Century

by Robin Harris , Terry Harris
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781442631410
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 646
  • Original Price: GBP 46.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1107 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical

Eldon House is a distinctive element in the historical townscape of London, Ontario. By the mid-nineteenth century, its original owners, John and Amelia Harris, were prominent members of society in that dynamic community. Their children grew up in the affluent and cultured setting of a family whose increasing prosperity advanced with that of London and western Ontario. If London had an elite, the Harris family was part of it, and Eldon House was an important focal point of the social regimen of the day.


A considerable corpus of family papers within the Eldon House and prominent among these papers is a collection of diaries that are excerpted in this volume, encapsulating the personalities, activities, and voices of the Harrises of London. These diaries are valuable because of the details of the warp and woof of daily life in the nineteenth century. But, more importantly, they are women's diaries. As such, they speak to us of the verities of personal, domestic, and societal life in the neglected voice of women. Together, they provide a fascinating perspective of these women's lives in, around, and beyond Eldon House.

Robin S. Harris (1919-2000) was a professor emeritus of higher education and English at University College, University of Toronto, and served as the founding Principal of Innis College and University Historian. Terry G. Harris is a Canadian writer of German and Italian descent, born in Brazil. She lives in Thornhill, Ontario. Her degrees in humanities are from the University of Sao Paulo and the University of Toronto. Her works have been in history and genealogy. She has lately concentrated on publishing poetry.

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