Monthly Archives: October 2014

Early Popular Poets: Drummond and Campbell

(left to right/top to bottom:  The Drummond Story–rare LP; Dr. W.H. Drummond’s Complete Poems; McClelland & Stewart, 1926, dust jacket by Thoreau MacDonald; photo of author from Canadian Singers and Their Songs, McClelland & Stewart, 1919; ltd. ed. page of The … Continue reading

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Two Literary Sisters

(left to right/top to bottom: cover of Lost in the Backwoods, 1896 London ed. of The Canadian Crusoes, Canadian Trapper frontispiece to title page, p. 125 illustration of Rafts on the St. Lawrence; title page and author photo at 94 & … Continue reading

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BEGINNING OF BLOG–Prose Beginnings: Brooke, Haliburton and Richardson

(above: dust jacket of Sam Slick in Pictures, illustrated by Charles W. Jefferys, Ryerson, 1956–Jefferys did his memorable sketches in 1916; cover of Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy, republished by McClelland & Stewart, 1923, with illustrations by Jefferys) … Continue reading

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