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

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Showing posts with label Romance novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romance 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...
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...
22 February 2025

Elinor Glyn Saturday Movie Matinee

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An addendum to last week's post on Beyond the Rocks by Elinor Glyn . A lost film found! I first read about  Beyond the Rocks in univer...
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17 February 2025

No Holiday Amusement

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Beyond the Rocks: A Love Story Elinor Glyn New York: Macaulay, [1922] 327 pages In the afterglow of Valentine's Day comes a tale of forb...
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16 December 2024

Elinor Glyn's Christmas Ghost Story (and others)

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The Contrast and Other Stories Elinor Glyn London: Duckworth, 1913 312 pages As is typical of short story collections, this book is overshad...
19 October 2024

Darkness on the Edge of Town

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Barnabas, Quentin and the Crystal Coffin Marilyn Ross [W.E.D. Ross] New York: Paperback Library, 1970 157 pages The back cover poses a quest...
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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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