Toronto Trailblazers
Women in Canadian Publishing
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2019
- Category
- General, General, Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487532345
- Publish Date
- Aug 2019
- List Price
- $37.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487505578
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $97.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487523862
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $37.95
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Description
Toronto Trailblazers explores the influence of seven key women who, despite pervasive gender bias, helped advance a modern literary culture for Canada.
Publisher Irene Clarke, scholarly editors Eleanor Harman and Francess Halpenny, trade editors Sybil Hutchinson, Claire Pratt, and Anna Porter, and literary agent Bella Pomer made the most of their vocational prospects, first by securing their respective positions and then by refining their professional methods. Individually, each woman asserted her agency by adapting orthodox ways of working within Canadian publishing. Collectively, their overarching approach emerged as a feminist practice. Through their vision and method these trailblazing women disrupted the dominant masculine paradigm and helped transform publishing practice in Canada.
About the author
Ruth Panofsky is an award-winning poet who lives and writes in Toronto, where she teaches Canadian Literature and Culture at Ryerson University. She is the author of The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman (2006) and The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture (2012). Her award-winning critical edition of the collected poetry of Miriam Waddington appeared in two volumes in 2014 and, most recently, she edited The Spice Box: Canadian Jewish Writing (2017). Her newest work, Toronto Trailblazers: Women in Canadian Publishing, which focuses on key twentieth-century publishers, editors, and literary agents, was published in 2019. She is also an award-winning poet. She received the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices (2007). Radiant Shards: Hoda's North End Poems, her third volume of verse, received a Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award.
Awards
- Short-listed, 2021 Heritage Toronto Book Award
Other titles by
The New Spice Box
Contemporary Jewish Writing
Radiant Shards: Hoda's North End Poems
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Hoda's North End Poems
The New Spice Box
Canadian Jewish Writing, Volume 1
Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere
Place and Space
The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington
A Critical Edition Volume 1
The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington
A Critical Edition
At Odds in the World
Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers
The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada
Making Books and Mapping Culture
Laike and Nahum
A Poem in Two Voices