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Carolyn Gossage

Carolyn Gossage is the author of books on Ethiopian icons and crosses. She has also published a number of historical titles, including Greatcoats and Glamour Boots and The History of the Frankfurt Book Fair. She lives in Toronto and has taught history and English in Canada and abroad for over twenty years. She is also the author of a number of books including: A Question of Privilege, Canada's Independent Schools (1977).

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A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair

A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair

by Peter Weidhaas & Carolyn Gossage
translated with commentary by Wendy A. Wright
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A colourful and revealing look at more than 500 years of commerce conducted at the renowned Frankfurt Book Fair, from its beginnings in the Middle Ages. Even then, in spite of internal strife and religious upheaval, books were becoming increasingly accessible to those who found their way to Frankfurt to buy, sell, and promote. The fact that King He …

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Forgotten Graces: Travel Sketchbooks of a Victorian Gentlewoman

Forgotten Graces: Travel Sketchbooks of a Victorian Gentlewoman

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This is a companion book to accompany the 2006 'Three Graces Exhibition' held at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham.

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Greatcoats and Glamour Boots

Greatcoats and Glamour Boots

Canadian Women at War, 1939-1945, Revised Edition
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Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the recruiting posters urged. By the war's end almost 50,000 of them were in the forces.

Carolyn Goss …

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Props on Her Sleeve

Props on Her Sleeve

The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman
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A first-hand account of the experiences of a young Canadian airwoman who served both in Canada and on overseas duty, this series of 150 letters brings home the day-to-day immediacy of life in uniform during the Second World War. Moments of hilarity interspersed with impatience and frustration are recorded verbatim, along with an underlying sense of …

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The Accidental Captives

The Accidental Captives

The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany
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In April 1941, seven Canadian women became prisoners of war while on a voyage from New York City to Cape Town. Their aging Egyptian liner, the Zamzam, was sunk off the coast of South Africa by the German raider Atlantis. The passengers were transferred to a prison ship and eventually put ashore in Nazi-occupied France. As "non-aliens," all 140 Ame …

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