![]() ![]() but before he could depart, Britain adopted Europe's Gregorian calendar and the entire country lost eleven days forever: September 2 was followed by September 14. ![]() It also depicts how, at 25, Wolfe was awarded a two-week study leave in Paris. What emerges from this little-seen cache is the opposite of the public face: history portrays Wolfe as the iconic victor but his correspondence reveals a lifelong struggle with melancholy and trauma, a desperate longing for poetry, dance, enlightenment. ![]() The letters, written to his mother, begin when he was a child soldier of 13, and end when he was 32, already a scarred veteran of war, just two weeks before his famous death on the Plains of Abraham. In creating this extraordinary character, Kathleen Winter pored over the real-life letters of General Wolfe, which were acquired by the University of Toronto in 2013 for an astronomical sum. "Through Kathleen Winter's incredible act of empathy, we enter the world of a character named General James Wolfe-a tall, red-haired, homeless thirty-something ex-soldier, battered by PTSD-as he camps out on the streets of modern-day Quebec City, trying to remember and reclaim his youth. ![]()
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