The Prairie Wife

A novel by the Canadian writer Arthur Stringer, published in 1915 and written in the form of a diary. A young woman from New York high society, suddenly ruined, marries almost without thinking Duncan McKail, a Canadian of Scottish descent, a former engineer who now grows wheat in western Canada. She discovers a plank shack in the middle of the prairie, a Swedish farmhand, hens, cooking and isolation. Day after day she tells everything to her friend Matilda Anne, who has stayed in Europe. A funny, frank account of learning a new life and a marriage.