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is said to be influenced by the case of a real missing child lost in the woods . Theme events are parallel to the storyline of an orphaned girl who is adopted by an upper-class family of St. John's. The authenticity of the lifestyles of outport life and the poverty of depression-era
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In 1928, when Duley and her brother Cyril took a boat trip to the coast of
Labrador. Dudley encountered a seagull which hovered in front of her face with eyes like "yellow ice." She used this fierce, yellow-eyed image in her first book titled
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Elizabeth II Library on the campus of Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her home at 51 Rennies Mill Road is part of a
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depicts the turbulence and excitement of wartime St. John's, as well as the activities at the hostel that entertained, fed and housed approximately 16,000 soldiers by 1946. A short story called
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and described the theme as a "symbol of a piteous heart of the north." The novel follows a 30-year-old woman who wants freedom from her outport life and a dictating mother.
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