Writing in the Margins: The Newfoundland Suffragists

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Historical fiction lets readers and writers fill in the stories of people whose lives were lived in the margins of history. Novelist Trudy Morgan-Cole will read from and talk about her novel A Sudden Sun, which brings to life the experiences of Newfoundland women who fought for the right to vote over three decades from the 1890s to the 1920s. She will explore how the recorded history of our suffrage movement is woven together with a fictional story about a mother, a daughter, and the cause that they both marched for. Happening October 2 at the Colonial Building Provincial Historic Site starting at 7pm.

Bio: Trudy Morgan-Cole is a writer and retired teacher from St. John’s who loves using fiction to explore the gaps that history leaves behind. Her award-winning work includes the 2014 novel A Sudden Sun, as well as the recent Cupids Trilogy (A Roll of the Bones, Such Miracles and Mischiefs, and A Company of Rogues). She is also the author of The Mirror, a play about pioneering Newfoundland suffragist Armine Nutting Gosling.