Newfoundland Quarterly
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Winter 2009/10, Volume 102 Number 3


On the Cover ...


Feature Articles ...




Jessie Willcox Smith. Composed in charcoal, water and oil, 1916. Public domain.


      
The Making of Death on the Ice    By Nancy Earle
A popular guest speaker in the province’s schools following the publication of Death on the Ice, in the 1970s and 1980s Cassie Brown was many children’s first introduction to a Newfoundland author...   [ Read Online ]


Marjorie Mews: All classes, kinds and creeds   By Suzanne Sexty
On October 30, 1935 Mews was appointed as 2nd Assistant Librarian with the salary of $720 per annum. Why, or how, this appointment came about is unclear, but it was a fortunate selection, and for the next 30 years Mews would devote her professional life to expanding library services in St. John’s and especially to the provision of services to children...  



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