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Title Re(dis)covering our foremothers : nineteenth-century Canadian women writers / edited and with an introduction by Lorraine McMullen.

Publication Info. Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, [1990]
©1990

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Description 1 online resource (203 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Re-appraisals, Canadian writers, 1189-6787 ; 15
Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 15. 1189-6787
Note Papers presented at a conference held at University of Ottawa, April 29-May 1, 1988.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / Lorraine McMullen -- "Thinking back through our mothers" : tradition in Canadian women's writing / Clara Thomas, Carol Shields, Donna E. Smyth -- Archival sources for research on nineteenth-century women writers / Marion Beyea -- Canadian women writers and the American literary milieu of the 1890s / James Doyle -- Problems and solutions in the Dictionary of Canadian biography, 1800-1900 / Francess G. Halpenny -- Research in nineteenth-century Canadian women writers : an exercise in literary detection / Carrie MacMillan -- Anthologies and the canon of early Canadian women writers / Carole Gerson -- Separate entrances : the first generation of Canadian women journalists / Marjory Lang -- Breaking the "cake of custom" : the Atlantic crossing as a rubicon for female emigrants to Canada? / D.M.R. Bentley.
Women and the garrison mentality : pioneer women autobiographers and their relation to the land / Helen M. Buss -- "The embryo blossom" : Susanna Moodie's letters to her husband in relation to Roughing it in the bush / Carl Ballstadt -- The function of the sketches in Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the bush / Alec Lucas -- "The tongue of woman" : the language of the self in Moodie's Roughing it in the bush / Bina Freiwald -- "Splendid anachronism" : the record of Catharine Parr Traill's struggles as an amateur botanist in nineteenth-century Canada / Michael A. Peterman -- "You may imagine my feelings" : reading Sara Jeannette Duncan's challenge to narrative / Misao Dean -- Afterword / Elizabeth Waterston.
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Subject Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Canadian literature -- Women authors.
Canadian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Canadian literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Women and literature -- Canada -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Women and literature.
Canada.
History.
Women -- Canada -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.
Women.
Intellectual life.
Canadian literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Canadian literature (English) -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author McMullen, Lorraine.
Added Title Rediscovering our foremothers
Other Form: Print version: Re(dis)covering our foremothers. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, ©1990 0776601970 9780776601977 (DLC) 92102959 (OCoLC)25508369
ISBN 9780776616810 (electronic book)
0776616811 (electronic book)
0776601970
9780776601977