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Chapter 36 - (VERSO)
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I’ve a pain so often now—behind my eyes. Doctor Spencer’s been fussing with glasses but they don’t do me any good. There is a distinguished oculist coming to the Island the last of June and the doctor says I must see him. I guess I’ll have to. I can’t read or sew with any comfort now. Well, Anne, you’ve done real well at Queen’s I must say. To take First Class License in one year and win the Avery scholarship—well, well, Mrs. Lynde says pride goes before a fall and she doesn’t believe in the higher education of women at all; she says it unfits them for women’s true sphere. I don’t believe a word of it. Speaking of Rachel reminds me—did you hear anything about the Abbey Bank lately, Anne?”
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"oculist": An early term for someone who practices optometry and/or ophthalmology, though the distinction between the two terms was less defined than it is today. This ad, from an 1893 issue of The Daily Examiner, explains that "Prof. Goldstein and Wife" will visit Charlottetown "for the purpose of making scientific examination of all classes of Defective Vision." They were to visit for two weeks and conduct their business at the Hotel Davies.
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"pride goes before a fall": Mrs. Lynde is paraphrasing the Bible, Proverbs 16:18: "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
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"women’s true sphere": Mrs. Lynde believes, as many Victorians (and others) were trained to believe, in the separation of the spheres of activities of men and women. Montgomery satirizes the belief by attributing it to (often) comic Mrs. Lynde and by making Anne the living example of its outdatedness. Yet even in the 1960s and 1970s, opponents of women’s rights rallied under the banner "separate but equal," which arguably has its roots in this same popularized (and economically privileged) notion of appropriate spheres of responsibility, ability, and behaviour.
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"Abbey Bank": There were many private banks throughout Canada until legislature required, through updates to the Banking Act of 1871, that certain criteria must always be met, including protecting individuals against loss. A fine example of a private bank that could have made it (and would have been known to Montgomery): the Farmers’ Bank of Rustico, located in South Rustico, P.E.I., and now a National Historic Site. The Farmers' Bank is thought to have been the first community-based bank in all of Canada. It ran successfully from 1864 to 1894 when its charter was not renewed because its policies and practices did not conform to the Banking Act of the time (since it was more of a credit union than a traditional bank).
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