She strikes up a friendship with Paul, a local schoolteacher and philologist, while Philip engages the affections of Judith. Her journal tells mostly of her efforts to win her husband's affections, yet he appears to withstand her efforts, which are conflicted and subtly evasive. Bentley sees herself and Philip as frustrated artists she has a passion for music and, in her youth, entertained dreams of success as a pianist, and he spends much of his time sketching and painting. As she records her feelings, it is clear she, as she suspects of her husband, has nothing but contempt for her husband's flock. Bentley, whose first name we never learn, despairs of Philip (her husband), who is becoming ever more remote. The couple has just moved to yet another small town, 'Horizon'. Bentley, a Protestant minister's wife, writes journal (or diary) entries on a regular basis the time span is just over a year (from 8 April 1939 to, if the weekday noted with each entry is assumed to be correct). Set during the Great Depression in the fictional mid-western prairie town of Horizon (the precise location of Horizon is not provided, and could conceivably be in either Canada or the United States), it deals with the experiences of a minister's wife, her husband and their struggles and hardships. Its 1957 Canadian re-issue, by McClelland & Stewart, as part of their New Canadian Library line, began its canonization, mostly in university classrooms. As For Me and My House is a novel by Canadian author Sinclair Ross, first published in 1941 by the American company Reynal and Hitchcock, with little fanfare.

As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross