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Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
28 July 2020

An Obstinate Virgin Turns Old-Fashioned Girl

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The Obstinate Virgin Sinclair Murray [Alan Sullivan] London: Sampson Low, Marston [1934] 314 pages In Essentially Canadian , his 19...
18 September 2019

A Literary Vampire Alights upon an Impoverished Poet; or, A Newer New Grub Street in Manhattan

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The Silver Poppy Arthur Stringer New York: Appleton, 1903 291 pages Educated Englishman John Hartley has seen much sadness in his y...
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07 June 2016

Am I the Only One Laughing with Leacock?

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The Hohenzollerns in America;       With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities Stephen Leacock Toronto: S.B. Gundy, 191...
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29 February 2016

Familiarity Breeds Content

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The Measure of a Man: A Tale of the Big Woods Norman Duncan New York: Revell, 1911 The Measure of a Man is a novel I thought I&#...
19 October 2012

The King of the Canadian Pulps Bowdlerized

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The Fabulous Kelley Thomas P. Kelley, Jr. Richmond Hill, ON: Pocket, 1968 The Fabulous Kelley Thomas P. Kelley, Jr. Toronto...
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18 April 2012

Shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize

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The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2011 Gabrielle Roy Prize (Engl...
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15 March 2012

Irving Layton Rides a Rooster

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Frank Newfeld doesn't figure in Irving Layton's memoir  Waiting for the Messiah,  he makes no appearance in Elspeth Cameron&#...
16 January 2012

The Mystery Writer Mystery Unravels

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'Keeping an Eye Out for Pamela Fry'  pays off: A writer friend informs that Pamela Fry, author of Harsh Evidence and The W...
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