The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Fleming (May Agnes). Show all posts

Showing posts with label Fleming (May Agnes). Show all posts

11 August 2026

Books I Was Reading On This Day Over the Last Ten Years: A Top Ten Tuesday List

Tuesdays begin like any other day. I rise before the sun, make a carafe of coffee, then return to bed to read The New York Times on my lap...

25 June 2026

Back to the Gypsy That She Was

The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance May Agnes Fleming Chicago: Donahue, n.d. 250 pages Not to suggest that he didn't de...

30 March 2026

The Lady Vanishes (again and again)

Wedded for a Week; or, The Unseen Bridegroom May Agnes Fleming London: Milner, [n.d.] 248 pages We begin on a dark and stormy November night...

04 December 2023

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2023!

With sadness, I report that 2023 was another year in which all my favourite acquisitions were purchased online. This is not to suggest that ...

07 August 2023

Victorian Ladies in Day-Glo Green and Orange

Published thirty years ago by McGill-Queen's University Press, Silenced Sextet received laudatory reviews, but not its due. It is an e...

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About Me

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. 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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