Details

Title

All My Sisters

Subtitle

essays on the work of Canadian women writers

Statement of Responsibility

Clara Thomas.

Author

Thomas, Clara

Physical Description

xv, 380 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication

Ottawa, Canada

Country

Canada

Publisher

Tecumseh Press

Date of Publication

1994 Show more1994-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
1994-01-01T00:00:00.000Z Show less

Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Contents

Part I. Canadian contexts. 1.a. Crusoe and the precious kingdom: fables of our literature, 1972 -- b. Planted firmly in some soil: Margaret Laurence and the Canadian tradition in fiction, 1987 -- Part II. Women writers and their works. 2. Happily ever after: Canadian women in fiction and fact, 1966 -- 3. Martha Ostenso's trial of strength, 1971 -- 4. Journeys to freedom: Anna, Susanna and Catharine Parr Traill, 1972 -- 5. Duncan I - Cousin Cinderella and the Empire Games, 1975 -- 6. Duncan II - Canadian social mythologies in Sara Jeannette Duncan's The Imperialist, 1977 -- 7. Mr. Rochester's first marriage: wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys, 1978 -- 8. How Jane got tenure, 1985 -- 9. The girl who wouldn't grow up: Marian Engel's The Glassy Sea, 1985 -- 10. "A slight parodic edge": Swann: a mystery, 1990 -- 11. Evelyn Eaton, 1902-1983 -- 12. The multiple lives of L.M. Montgomery, 1993 -- 13. Anne Shirley's American cousin: the girl of the Limberlost, 1992 -- Part III. Margaret Laurence. 14. Proud lineage: Willa Cather and Margaret Laurence, 1971 -- 15. The Wild Garden and the Manawaka World, 1976 -- 16. The Chariot of Ossian: myth and Manitoba in The Diviners, 1977 -- 17. Pilgrim's progress: Margaret Laurence and Hagar Shipley, 1980 -- 18. Morning yet on creation day: a study of This Side Jordan, 1982 -- 19. Towards freedom: the work of Margaret Laurence and Northrop Frye, 1983 (Reprinted from Essays on Canadian Writing 30, by permission of ECW Press, Toronto. cECW Press) -- 20. Margaret, Morag, and the Scottish Ancestors, 1991 -- 21. The Accommodating I: the Autobiographies of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy, 1991 -- 22. Celebrations: Margaret Laurence's Dance on the Earth and Northrop Frye's The Double Vision.

Topic

Canadian literature
Women authors
History and criticism
Women and literature
History

Genre

Reference

Call Number(s)

491 REF-Thomas

Bibliographic Information

Includes bibliographical references.