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

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Showing posts with label Robertson (Margaret Murray). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robertson (Margaret Murray). Show all posts
07 August 2023

Victorian Ladies in Day-Glo Green and Orange

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Published thirty years ago by McGill-Queen's University Press,  Silenced Sextet  received laudatory reviews, but not its due. It is an e...
27 September 2021

Six Forgotten Novelists at the Atwater Library

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This coming Thursday – September 30 – I'll be speaking on "Forgotten Montreal Novelists" at the Atwater Library. Forgotten Mon...
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06 December 2019

The Twenty Best Book Buys of 2019

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Never has there been a year like this. I visited few used bookstores, ignored library book sales, spent no more than a couple of hours p...
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22 October 2019

Let the Margaret Murray Robertson Revival Begin!

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Christie Redfern’s Troubles by the author of “Mark Wedgewood’s Wooing,” etc. [Margaret Murray Robertson] London: The Religious Trac...
01 August 2019

Margaret Murray Robertson Matrimonial Mystery (& Canadian literature's most tear-stained novel)

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Summertime, and the livin' is busy. Many irons in the fire add to the heat, the pressure is on, and I'm enjoying each and every ...
27 December 2018

Best Book Buys of 2018 (four of which were gifts)

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Twenty-eighteen was a year of great change. In April, we sold our home of ten years and started packing up our belongings. We moved in...
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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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