Ebenezer Le Page
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'''Ebenezer Le Page''' is the lead character in the novel ''[[The Book of Ebenezer Le Page]]'' by [[Gerald Basil Edwards|GB Edwards]]. The book takes the form of an autobiography of an [[Archetype|archetypal]] Guernseyman who lives through the dramatic changes in the island of [[Guernsey]], [[Channel Islands]] from the late 19th century, through to the 1960s. The book is written in [[Guernsey English]] (with an occasional smattering of the [[Dgèrnésiais|Guernsey]] language)
Ebenezer was born in the late nineteenth century, and dies in the early 1960s. He lived his whole life in [[Vale, Guernsey|Vale]]. He never married, despite a few flings with local girls, and a tempestuous relationship with Liza Queripel of Pleinmont. He only left the island once, to travel to [[Jersey]] to watch the [[Muratti]]. For most of his life he was a grower and fisherman, although he also served in the North regiment of the [[Royal Guernsey Light Infantry|Royal Guernsey Militia]] (though not outside the island) and did some jobbing work for the [[States of Guernsey]] in the latter part of his life. Guernsey is a microcosm of the world as Dublin is to [[James Joyce]] and Dorset is to [[Thomas Hardy]]. After a life fraught with difficulties and full of moving episodes, Ebenezer dies happy, bequeathing his pot of gold and autobiography (The Book of Ebenezer Le Page) to the young artist he befriends, after an incident in which the latter smashed his greenhouse.
[[Category:People from Guernsey|Le Page, Ebenezer]]
[[Category:Channel Islands]]
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