The Curve of Time, M. Wylie Blanchet, 1968, Canada, MEMOIR
"M. Wylie Blanchet was only thirty-six when her husband died in 1927, leaving her with an isolated home on Vancouver Island and five children, the smallest one two and a half years old. When relatives advised her that she couldn't manage alone, she sent back a telegram: "Can't I?"..."
"M. Wylie Blanchet was only thirty-six when her husband died in 1927, leaving her with an isolated home on Vancouver Island and five children, the smallest one two and a half years old. When relatives advised her that she couldn't manage alone, she sent back a telegram: "Can't I?"..."
(E.B., p. 231)