With the West in Her Eyes

WITH THE WEST IN HER EYES is autobiography, written from the view point of an English girl who had never been on a farm until the day she arrived in Canada. The scene is a remote rural community in Alberta.


“I have always felt,” writes Mrs. Strange, “that the farmer makes very important contribution to the welfare of the world. In this book I have tried to show that behind the farmer, helping him, assisting him, encouraging him, working with him, stands the patient, uncomplaining and steadfast figure of his wife.”


Mrs. Strange tells simply and compellingly of a winning fight—a fight which goes on not only in Canada, but wherever farmers wring a living from the soil. She writes of blizzards and hired hands, of killing work and low prices—and of the rewards of a farmer’s life. WITH THE WEST IN HER EYES is not about farm life—it is farm life.