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Isabella Valancy Crawford
Elizabeth McNeill Galvin traces the life of Isabella Valancy Crawford, considered to be Canadas first poet to use Canadian themes.
Isabella Valancy Crawford (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Isabella Valancy Crawford It is perhaps inevitable that what the Irish call a' trouble should exist between the mystical and the actual life of every artist. In the case of Isabella Valancy Crawford this conflict began generations before her day, for she was of the fatal Celtic origin that gathers trouble to itself as naturally as it gathers joy. The Crawfords were of Highland, and later of Irish, descent, and it was in Dublin, on Christmas Day, 1850, that there was born to Sydney Scott, and Stephen Dennis Crawford, her husband, a daughter, whom they named for a maternal relative, Isabella Val ancy. Dr. Crawford was a man of wide ex perience and literary culture. There was much...
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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Selected Stories of Isabella Valancy Crawford
Isabella Valancy Crawford's short stories represent the best of early English-Canadian prose. In her stories as in her poetry, her power lies in her use of imagery. In this collection, her fictional portrayals of Canadian life give us glimpses into our literary past. This collection includes the following works by Valancy Crawford: A Five-O'Clock Tea; How the Nightingale and the Parrot Wooed the Rose; La Tricoteuse; The Halton Boys; Tudor Tr& In the Breast of a Maple; Extradited; The Grasshopper Paper (an article). It also includes an introduction, a chapter about the author, and a selected bibliography.
