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Personal Information

Full Name

Emily Bruusgaard

Bio

Emily Bruusgaard is a doctoral candidate in English at Queen’s University who maintains a twin interest in British and Canadian women’s literature from the 1920s and 30s and textile history. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Covert Threads: The Subversive Language of Textile, from Jane Austen to Margaret Atwood,” examines the changing relationships between textile making, women’s writing, and oral narrative from 1810 to 1990.

Affiliation

Queen’s University

Country

Canada

Case studies by Emily Bruusgaard

Case study :

Chatelaine Magazine

Though there has been recent interest in Chatelaine magazine’s role in second wave feminism in Canada, much work needs to be done on its place in Canadian women’s lives in the early years of its publication.