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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Broadview Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Broadview Press. Show all posts
26 December 2019

The Very Best Reads of a Very Strange Year

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It's been a disorienting and disruptive year. The home we'd expected to build on the banks of the Rideau became entangled in red...
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16 October 2019

A Dog's Life and Then Some

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Beautiful Joe: The Autobiography of a Dog      [New and Revised Edition] Marshall Saunders Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, n.d. 2...
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02 July 2019

Getting to Know the Woman Who Did

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The Woman Who Did Grant Allen Boston: Roberts Bros, 1895 223 pages The Woman Who Did was the first Grant Allen novel I ever bought...
12 September 2016

Grant Allen Dons a Woman's Blouse

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The Type-Writer Girl Grant Allen (writing as Olive Pratt Raynor) Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2003 Juliet Appleton is a Girton girl;...
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04 June 2010

Awful Allens

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Further to Tuesday's post . The cover of the Leadenhead Michael's Crag might not be as attractive as Rand McNally's (above), bu...
10 May 2010

Gay Swans

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John Cleland never wrote a sequel to Fanny Hill , nor did he publish a book called Memoirs of a Male Prostitute . What we have here is ...
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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