06 October 2013

The Heart Accepts It All in Knowlton: An Invitation


John Glassco with 'housekeeper' Mary Elizabeth Wilson,
Knowlton, QC, 1940
Join me this coming Saturday for the Eastern Townships' launch of
The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco.
The venue?
Knowlton's Brome Lake Books, not two kilometres from the Glassco's Windermere, immortalized in 'The White Mansion'.


Everyone welcome!

Saturday, 12 October 2013 at 2:00 p.m.

Brome Lake Books
264 E Knowlton Rd
Brome Lake, QC

A reception will follow.


05 October 2013

Tecumseh: 200 Years


Tecumseh
c.1768 - 5 October 1813
RIP
from Tecumseh: A Drama
Charles Mair
Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1886

04 October 2013

Gwethalyn Graham Memorial Plaque



A week today, 11 October, will see the installation of a plaque dedicated to the memory of novelist Gwethalyn Graham at the Writers' Chapel of Montreal's St James the Apostle Anglican Church.

Speaking will be
Norman Ravvin, Associate Professor and Chair, Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University
and
Claire Holden Rothman, author of Salad Days, Black Tulips
and The Heart Specialist.
The Venerable Linda Borden Taylor will officiate.

All are welcome.

Friday, 11 October 2013, 6 p.m.

Church of St James the Apostle
1439 St Catherine Street West (Bishop Street entrance)
Montreal

A reception will follow.

30 September 2013

Not Our Backwoods, Not Catharine Parr Traill


Backwoods Hussy
Hallan Whitney [pseud. Harry Whittington]
New York: Original Novels, 1952