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Join us for an author visit with Rebecca Beausaert, author of Pursuing Play: Women’s Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914.
Life in the Canadian countryside at the turn of the twentieth century is often generalized as insular, backwards, and arduous. Pursuing Play challenges these assumptions and draws on diaries, letters, newspapers, and census records to investigate women’s recreational activities in three southern Ontario towns—Dresden, Tillsonburg, and Elora—between 1870–1914. Beausaert uncovers how gender, class, and ethnicity shaped the nature and scope of women’s leisure in small-town Ontario and beyond.
Rebecca's talk will conclude with time for questions and discussion, and an option to purchase copies of her book.
Click here to place a hold on Pursuing Play in our catalogue.
Elora Branch is located in central Elora beside the post office, at the corner of Henderson and Geddes Streets. This historic Carnegie building includes a rentable meeting room, Wi-Fi, and computer access.
