Chancey, Margaret Mayo

• Main Authors: Chancey, Margaret Mayo, 1871-1941, Riggs, Bertram G., 1954-
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries 1897
• Subjects: Chancey; Margaret Mayo; 1871-1941; Gower Street Methodist Church (St. John's; N.L.); St. John's (N.L.) > Social life and customs; Diaries; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ead/id/23

This diary was kept by a young woman in her mid-twenties during the year 1897. It contains a brief entry for each day; ordinary events in the life of a young woman living in St. John's as the end of a century approached. She records the weather, what she did each day, shopping expeditions, church services, tea parties, staying at home with her mother. But the physical diary tells as much about the young woman as what she writes. Her literacy and writing ability attest to a good education. On the cover of the diary she has written her name and address. The family home was located at 31 Cookstown Road, a street which was up over the hill from downtown, running north through LeMarchant Road. This diary should prove to be of interest to social historians, students of autobiography and women's studies, and all who are curious about the writings of a young woman in the St. John's of 1897.