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Showing posts with label Mackay (Isabel Ecclestone). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mackay (Isabel Ecclestone). Show all posts
01 November 2022

Isabel Ecclestone MacKay's Cold, Colourless, Bitter, Empty, Lonely, Dreary November

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An old poem for the New Month by daughter of Woodstock, Ontario Isabel Ecclestone MacKay. This one comes from  Between the Lights , her 1904...
01 December 2021

The 1921 Globe 100 206: Don't Mention the War

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The Globe , 3 December 1921 The 1921 edition of 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the  Globe's  annual list of best books, begins ...
08 March 2020

10 Canadian Books for International Women's Day

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One Canadian man recommends ten unjustly neglected novels by ten Canadian women: The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1863 A got...
21 December 2019

The Globe 100 One Hundred Years Ago: Poets are Struck Dumb and Capitalism Proves Embarrassing

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The Globe , 6 December 1919 Last month, the Globe & Mail published  'The Globe 100' , its annual list of the year's...
20 December 2018

Best Books of 2018 (none of which are from 2018)

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I'm right now reading Thomas Jerome Seabrook's  Bowie in Berlin , a book that has nothing at all to do with Canadian literature....
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12 September 2018

'Strangely Entangled in the Threads of Love'

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The Girl at Bullet Lake H.A. Cody Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1933 304 pages Nine years ago, I suggested that Isabel Ecc...
23 July 2018

The Promise of a Man, a Mother in So Much Pain

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Blencarrow Isabel Mackay Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1926 307 pages The author's final novel, published two years before her death, ...
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13 May 2018

Verse for Mother's Day by Dorothy Livesay's Mum

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Florence Randal Livesay 1874 - 1953 RIP Florence Randal Livesay was a remarkable woman. Born, raised and educated in the small Quebec t...
20 March 2017

'Spring Waking' by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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SPRING WAKING                 A snowdrop lay in the sweet, dark ground.                      "Come out," said the Sun, &...
01 November 2014

'Naughty Johnnie Frost'

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NAUGHTY JOHNNIE FROST                               "Little Leaf," said young Jack Frost,                             ...