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Blantyre—Alien Alan Sullivan London: J.M. Dent, 1914 265 pages Brian Blantyre is ship's doctor for the transatlantic steamer ...

Purchased four years ago, The Miracle and Other Poems  set me back two dollars and change. That price says much about contemporary intere...

Bookseller & Stationer , March 1905 Verse for the month by Virna Sheard (née Stanton), daughter of Coburg, Ontario, from  The Mira...

A poem for the month from The Golden Treasury of Canadian Verse , edited by A.M. Stephens, published in 1928 by J.M. Dent & Sons. Th...

The Miracle and Other Poems Virna Sheard Toronto: Dent, 1913 Related posts: 'When April Comes!' by Virna Sheard Vers...

In anticipation! Time to prepare your Easter bonnets! The Miracle and Other Poems Virna Sheard Toronto: Dent, 1913

Verse for the day by Virna Sheard (née Stanton), daughter of Cobourg, Ontario, from her collection The Miracle and Other Poems (Toro...

Florence Randal Livesay 1874 - 1953 RIP Florence Randal Livesay was a remarkable woman. Born, raised and educated in the small Quebec t...

For this first day of the season, two century-old poems of the Great War, both titled "Autumn, 1917," both written by women on...

The Globe , 2 December 1916 The 2016 Globe 100 was published last week. As with any other, one could quibble with this year's lis...

The influence of the war upon the literary taste of the public is strikingly illustrated by the increasing demand for more serious ...

Delightfully charming, unconventionally sentimental schoolgirl verse from Ethel Ursula Foran , whose "New Year's Day" h...