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Showing posts with label Noms de plume. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Noms de plume. Show all posts
27 August 2025

A Japanese Nightingale on Stage and Screen

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A follow-up to last week's post on A Japanese Nightingale .   On 19 November 1903, A Japanese Nightingale , dramatist William Young'...
21 August 2025

A 'Japanese' Nightingale: Winnifred Eaton at 150

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A Japanese Nightingale Onoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton] New York: Harper, 1901 226 pages Onoto Watanna was her own creation. She was not a Ja...
18 August 2025

A Pulp Writer's Challenge to Canadians

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Original Detective Stories Volume 1, Number 1 April 1948 Can a magazine written entirely by one person be considered a book? Of course not, ...
24 July 2025

Sunshine Scandals of a Little Town

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A View of the Town Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] Toronto: Nelson, Foster & Scott, 1954 269 pages There is no town of Inverness on Nova ...
01 July 2025

'How we joyously welcome this travail-less birth'

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Verse for the day, written for the country's very first day, by champion of Confederation Peter Steven Hamilton under his poetry nom de ...
22 April 2025

The Man with the Midas Touch

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Sword of Desire Robert W. Tracy [Alvin Schwartz] New York: Arco, 1952 176 pages As far as I can tell, "Fort Crime!" is the first A...
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25 February 2025

The Case of the Queer Antiques Dealer

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The Mystery of Cabin Island Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop [c. 1960] 214 pages If you ever happen to vi...
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