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Showing posts with label Historical novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical novels. Show all posts
12 May 2026

A Wedding, but No Wedding Night; or, A Sorry, Tragic Tale of Two Solitudes (in two editions)

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Antoinette de Mirecourt    or, Secret Marrying and Secret  Sorrowing Rosanna Leprohon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973 200 pages Anto...
16 August 2024

A Red, White and Blue Baron: For Minnie's Sake

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The American Baron James De Mille New York: Harper & Bros, 1872 144 pages Of all the novels I've read this past year – perhaps the p...
19 February 2024

My Mistake in Reading Richardson

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Hardscrabble; or, The Fall of Chicago Major [John] Richardson New York: Pollard & Moss, 1888 113 pages A forgotten novel about forgotten...
02 January 2024

Acadian Driftwood

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The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia Prof. James De Mille Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1875 264 pages Like De Mille's A Strange Manusc...
14 April 2023

A Very Acadian Scandal

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Quietly My Captain Waits Evelyn Eaton New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1943] 355 pages I first learned of Louise de Freneuse last autumn ...
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25 October 2022

May Agnes Fleming: Lost Lady of CanLit

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No surprise that I'm a devotee of Lost Ladies of Lit, "the podcast dedicated to dusting off books by forgotten women writers."...
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11 July 2022

Gothique Canadien

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Cameron of Lochiel [ Les Anciens Canadiens ] Phillipe[-Joseph] Aubert de Gaspé [trans Charles G.D.      Roberts] Boston: L.C.Page, 1905 287...