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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Selected Stories of Isabella Valancy Crawford

by (author) Isabella Valancy Crawford

edited by Penny Petrone

Publisher
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1975
Category
Short Stories (single author), 19th Century, Classics, Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776643359
    Publish Date
    Jan 1975
    List Price
    $12.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780776628387
    Publish Date
    Jan 1975
    List Price
    $9.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776644189
    Publish Date
    Sep 2024
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

Isabella Valancy Crawford's short stories represent the best of early English-Canadian prose. In her stories as in her poetry, her power lies in her use of imagery. In this collection, her fictional portrayals of Canadian life give us glimpses into our literary past.
This collection includes the following works by Valancy Crawford: A Five-O'Clock Tea; How the Nightingale and the Parrot Wooed the Rose; La Tricoteuse; The Halton Boys; Tudor Tramp; In the Breast of a Maple; Extradited; The Grasshopper Paper (an article). It also includes an introduction, a chapter about the author, and a selected bibliography.

About the authors

Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887) was born in Dublin in 1850 and came with her family to Ontario as a small child. After some years in Peterborough she moved to Toronto and endeavoured to make a living by contributing poetry and prose to leading English, American, and Canadian journals. She died in Toronto in 1887.

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Penny Petrone is retired from the Faculty of Education, Lakehead University. She is the editor of First People, First Voices, a collection of Native writing in English.

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