Harvest is beginning across the prairies this week — the same season Mrs. Cecil Hall described in her letters home nearly a century and a half ago.
A Lady’s Life on a Farm in Manitoba collects those letters: sharp, funny, unsentimental dispatches from a Victorian Englishwoman learning to run a prairie farm. It remains one of our most-loved reprints, and one of the best windows we have into what settlement actually felt like day to day — the work, the weather, and the wry humour it took to survive both.
