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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing
Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.
The Voice of the Dawn
History of the Abenaki Indians of Vermont.
Conrad’s Malaysian Fiction
Long before the issue of colonialism in Joseph Conrad’s works became a prominent topic in Conrad studies, Florence Clemens initiated this conversation and began the dialogue that has since become a crucial scholarly conversation.
Ottawa Valley Ancestry: A Dempsey Family History
This revised and expanded 5th edition contains more than 660 pages of research on the Dempsey, Romain, Laderoute, and Gervais families of the Ottawa Valley in Canada. It also contains more than 100 vintage photographs, as well as extensive historical research on the Quebec towns of Fort Coulonge and Waltham, and the Ontario towns of Pembroke, Westmeath, and La Passe. In other words, whatever your family's surname, the book contains resource material for anyone interested in Ottawa Valley history or interested in starting genealogical research of their own.
The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar
These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal the personal and literary life of one of the most highly regarded African American writers and intellectuals Paul Laurence Dunbar (1873–1906) was arguably the most famous African American poet, novelist, and dramatist at the turn of the twentieth century and one of the earliest African American writers to receive national recognition and appreciation. Scholars have taken a renewed interest in Dunbar but much is still unknown about this once-famous African American author’s life and literary efforts. Dunbar’s letters to various editors, friends, benefactors, scholars, and family members are crucial to any critical or theoretical underst...
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End
The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.
The Practice of Her Profession
Florence Carlyle (1864-1923), born in Galt, Ontario, emerged as one of the most successful Canadian artists of her time. Trained in Paris, she lived and worked in New York City and in Canada, cultivating a career as a popular portrait and genre painter. Known for her masterful use of colour, Carlyle's paintings are nuanced and perceptive portrayals of feminine spaces, the female figure, and women's domestic work.
Picturing Canada
Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman illuminate the connection between children's publishing and Canadian nationalism, analyse the gendered history of children's librarianship, identify changes and continuities in narrative themes and artistic styles, and explore recent changes in the creation and consumption of children's illustrated books. Over 130 interviews with Canadian authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, critics, and other contributors to Canadian children's book publishing, document the experiences of those who worked in the industry.
