Silenced sextet : six nineteenth-century Canadian women novelists / Carrie MacMillan, Lorraine McMullen, Elizabeth Waterston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacMillan, Carrie, 1945-

Contributor:

McMullen, Lorraine.

Waterston, Elizabeth, 1922-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Canadian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Carrie MacMillan, Lorraine McMullen, and Elizabeth Waterston have uncovered information about the lives and works of six such writers. Rosanna Leprohon, May Agnes Fleming, Margaret Murray Robertson, Susan Frances Harrison, Margaret Marshall Saunders, and Joanna E. Wood were once-popular novelists who are now for the most part ignored, with virtually all of their works out of print. MacMillan, McMullen, and Waterston show that these six writers deserve modern recognition not only for their literary accomplishments but also for what they reveal, through their work and their lives, about the condition of the woman writer in nineteenth-century Canada. The writings of these six women from varied backgrounds reflect their different experiences of life in the late nineteenth century. In this study a biographical profile of each author, set in the contemporary social context, is provided, as well as an analysis of career development, emphasising publishing history and critical response. As each case history unfolds, the broader picture emerges of an era when many ideas of personal and public life were changing.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Rosanna Mullins Leprohon: At Home in Many Worlds

May Agnes Fleming: “I did nothing but write”

Margaret Murray Robertson: Domestic Power

Susan Frances Harrison (“Seranus”): Paths through the Ancient Forest

Margaret Marshall Saunders: A Voice for the Silent

Joanna E. Wood: Incendiary Women

Conclusion

Notes

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references: p.[209]-226.

ISBN:

1-282-85615-4

9786612856150

0-7735-6365-2

OCLC:

243565484