| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 209 pages) : portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"This collection of short stories and poems by Western Icelandic women writers spans almost a century of writing, from the emigration and settlement of Icelanders in the early 1870s to their assimilation into North American culture in the 1950s and 1960s, and includes works by both Icelandic-writing (in translation) and English-writing authors"--Introduction. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Departure from Iceland ; Spring in the West ; My love for you ; Ode to the sun / Undina -- I remain ; Counsel for the heart ; To Iceland / Juliana Jonsdottir -- Two different marriages ; The hourglass -- The ABC and worldly wisdom / Torfhildur Porsteinsdottir Holm -- The wido -- They: a biography in a few words ; The messenger of peace / Margrjet J. Benedictsson -- Lost tracks ; Beyond the pale ; Not everything is as it seems / Gudrun H. Finnsdottir -- In old haunts ; Much do servants know ; Goody / Arnrun from Fell -- Havamal at Voo ; In the morning of life / Rannveig K.G. Sigbjornsson -- Dawn ; Candlelight ; I know of a bird ; Like seeds / Jakobina Johnson -- Cloth of gold ; The cabinet of curios ; Dream world / Helen Sveinbjornsson -- Hidden fire ; The greater gift ; When blind guides lead ; The Alabaster box / Laura Goodman Salverson. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Icelandic literature -- Canada -- Women authors -- Translations into English.
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Icelandic literature. |
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Canada. |
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Women authors. |
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Canadian literature -- Women authors.
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Canadian literature -- Women authors. |
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Canadian literature -- Icelandic authors.
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Canadian literature. |
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Authors, Icelandic. |
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Icelandic literature -- Translations into English.
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Canadian literature (English) -- Women authors. |
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Canadian literature (Icelandic) -- Women authors -- Translations into English. |
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Canadian literature (English) -- Icelandic Canadian authors. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Wolf, Kirsten, 1959-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Writings by Western Icelandic women. Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, ©1996 (DLC) 97225299 (OCoLC)36043502 |
| ISBN |
0887556418 |
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9780887556418 |
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9780887553981 (electronic book) |
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0887553982 (electronic book) |
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