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Canadians who died before 1976; brief biographical entries arranged alphabetically.
A consolidated index to biographical sketches in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries.
Explores how marriage in Ireland was perceived, negotiated and controlled by church and state as well as by individuals across three centuries.
Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation." The Virginia native's creative path began early, and, during the course of her life, she overcame significant barriers in her quest to make and even see art, including serious vision problems, polio, and paralysis. And then there was her gender. In 1957 Blaine was hailed by Life magazine as someone to watch, profiled alongside four other emerging painters whom the journalist praised "not as notable...