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You're Telling Me!

其他書名	A Memoir of Peg Fleming
出版	Writes Hill Press, 2014
ISBN	09922603299780992260323
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6PHorQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Lady Peg Fleming, nee Chambers, wife of scientist Sir Charles Fleming, and mother of Robin, Mary, and Jean, was a science graduate from the University of New Zealand and an amateur historian in later life. Peg had a lifelong interest in travel, research, and learning, and filled her spare moments with voluntary work. Her greatest commitment was to the Federation of University Women, in which she was active until her death in 2000. Robin Fleming's memoir of her mother describes the tensions that existed for Peg between supporting her husband's career, raising her daughters, and pursuing these varied interests and activities. It is a portrayal of a richly-lived life within the conventions and expectations of the then middle-class society. Robin writes: Mary, Jean and I have often wondered what Peg would have done had she been born a generation later. She might have been the manager of a big firm, perhaps, or a politician,or she might have done a degree in history and become an academic historian. But Peg was a woman of her time. She was not looking for equality. The model for her marriage, and therefore her life, was complementarity. She played her part by running the family, organising the household, and being Charles' social hostess, personal supportand companion. Charles played his part by paying the bills. Each needed the other to complete their life together.