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

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Showing posts with label Historical novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Historical novels. Show all posts
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...
20 June 2022

Good Times Never Seemed So Good

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Caroline André Norton and Enid Cushing New York: Tor, 1983 320 pages Caroline was published in January 1983, eight months before Enid Cushi...
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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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