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ISSUE No. 42, December 2008 ISSN 0840–5565 “O’er the hills and far away”: Highlights of 2007

ans of the television adaptation of literature. Other notable items are William maxty of prose and verse by Lavinia Derwent Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe series will Burchell’s Travels in the Interior of Southern and More Bits from Blinkbonny: a tale of remember the theme song at the end Africa (London, 1822–1824); Reverend John Scottish village life between 1831 and 1841 by Fof each episode. Sung by actor/folk singer Campbell’s Travels in Africa (London, 1815) John Strathesk. extraordinaire John Tams, the haunting and Travels in South Africa: a second journey Striving to create more space in his home, lyrics contained the lines “O’er the hills and (London, 1822). The earliest item in the Stephen Nugent asked if I would come o’er the main/through Flanders, Portugal and donation is Sir Thomas Herbert’s A Relation over and view some items that the Library Spain/King George commands and we obey/ of Some Yeares Travaile into Afrique, here in might be interested in. I was glad I had over the hills and far away,” and I am using the first edition printed in London in 1634. brought packing materials and boxes with that as my theme for this year’s report. From There are also French, Dutch, and German me when I saw what was on offer: limited South Africa through Spain, France, Holland, explorers’ accounts, including an edition editions of authors which the Fisher Library Scotland, over to Quebec and across to of François Le Vaillant’s Voyage…dans collects intensively. Mr. Nugent’s collection British Columbia, 2007’s gifts covered a l’interieur de l’Afrique in two volumes with contained works by Graham Greene, Robert variety of topics and national origins. the suppressed plates appended. Graves, Lawrence Durrell, and Oscar Wilde. From Dr. H.L. and Mrs. Pamela Ronald G. Peters continues to I expressed enthusiastic interest, grabbed the Sussmann came a superb collection of amaze. We received from him a first edi- lot, and ran. books and pamphlets on South Africa. tion of J. Scarlett Davis’s Fourteen Views Between them, Dr. F. Michael This donation of 221 items was assembled in Lithography of Bolton Abbey, Wharfedale, Walsh and Professor John Slater over a number of years and from a variety Yorkshire (London, 1829). Not even J.R. are determined to make the Fisher Library of sources. As one of the appraisers wrote Abbey in his bibliography of life in England a centre of excellence for the study of “There are no fillers in this collection; all are was able to describe a first edition, but Mr. philosophy. The latter has been giving pertinent to the subject.” From the second Peters found one. He was also able to find books to this Library since the late 1980s, (and best) edition of John Barrow’s Travels Lord Charles Whitworth’s An Account of including large collections of British and into the Interior of Southern Africa (London, Russia as it was in the Year 1710, produced American philosophers. In more recent 1806) to centennial issues of newspapers by Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Press times he collected works to be used in his from the 1970s, this is a collection unrivalled in a limited edition of seven hundred copies, Bibliography of Modern American Philosophers in Canada that will enhance the Fisher with an anonymous preface by Walpole. (2005) and Bibliography of Modern British Library’s rapidly expanding holdings of travel Another interesting item is Samuel Ireland’s Philosophers (2004). Dr. Walsh, on the Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant, other hand, collects early philosophy and and Part of France (London, 1796), with many his donation this year included, among etchings from drawings made by the author others, the first edition of Pierre Bayle’s “on the spot.” When it was published, his Dictionaire historique et critique, which was enemies brought charges against him that he produced in Rotterdam in October 1696 had never been out of England! (Proof was (though the title page is dated 1697). Bayle’s later found that he had made at least one trip work is considered a massive monument to France). Nonetheless the work proved to be very popular and went into another edition. He produced more tour books, all of which In this Issue contained his drawings, several going into second editions, with two appearing after “O’er the hills and far away”: Highlights of 2007 his death in 1800. Mr. Peters’s large paper 2007 Donors of Gifts-in-Kind copy was a presentation copy from the author Manuscript Acquisitions in 2007 to his daughter, Anna Maria Barnard, and Knox College Library contains her husband’s bookplate. Macdonald Oxley’s Literary Record ▲ View of the Mountains at the Cape of Good- Tim Sauer’s gift took us to Scotland A New Collection of Scottish Poetry Hope (from the Sussmann gift). with titles such as Clashmaclavers: a mixty- Events and Exhibitions 2

Half-way House between Leyden and Haerlem (from the Peters gift).

Guymier’s Pragmatica is going to destroy my eyesight any further, sanctio. The work is a cataloguing these tightly bound little darlings commentary on the will do the trick.) Pragmatic Sanction Readers who are of a certain generation of Fra nce’s K ing might remember the novels of Baroness Charles VII, which Orczy and Mazo de La Roche. Thanks to attempted to weaken David Bernhardt and the Estate of papal influence over Nancy Reive, many new volumes have the French Church been added to our holdings. Books used by by giving the king the the late Sybille Pantazzi to research the life right to nominate can- of Vernon Lee were donated by her nephew didates to bishoprics Michael Pantazzi. This comprehensive and other benefices. collection of works by and about Lee is First published in 1486, heavily annotated and interleaved with Miss it remained in print Pantazzi’s research notes, just waiting for the until 1666, long after next person interested in Lee (the pseudonym the Sanction was ter- of Violet Paget). When she began writing, to late seventeenth-century scholarship minated in 1516 at the Concordat of Bologna. she took the masculine name, since she and made an immense contribution to the The donor has always been interested in felt certain “that no one reads a woman’s Enlightenment. Until the publication of the drama and all the great French playwrights writing on art, history or aesthetics with Encyclopédie (1754), Bayle’s work dominated are here: the brothers Corneille, Gresset, anything but unmitigated contempt.” She enlightened thinking in every part of Nivelle de La Chaussée, Philippe Quinault, was a prolific author. Every year from the Europe. Nouvelles libertés de penser (1743), Florent Dancourt, Racine, Molière and age of twenty-four until her death in 1935 at which was published anonymously for fear Boileau Despreaux. As well, there are multi- age seventy-nine, she produced either works of persecution, is a collection of five essays volume sets like Théâtre François and Recueil of drama or supernatural stories, historical on religion and metaphysics by Bernard général des operas bouffons. Professor Stanton or travel essays. Although some critics feel le Bovier de Fontenelle, Jean-Baptiste also included some medical texts which she was better known by reputation than Mirabaud and César Chesnau. They were will augment the already extensive medical by a large readership, she was held in high right; immediately after publication it was holdings of the Fisher Library, such as J.-L. regard until the early twentieth century. But seized by the police because it “purported Baudelocque’s L’art des accouchemens (Paris, her readership did decline with her increasing to reconcile divine foreknowledge with 1796) and Philippe Hecquet’s La medicine, la concentration on abstract and philosophical human freewill, but in fact, casts doubt on chirurgie et la pharmacie des pauvres (Paris, concerns. In 1909 Virginia Woolf found her the existence of either.” WorldCat records 1742). For thirty-seven years, Hecquet was “a garrulous baby” but twenty years later just five copies. Another important work the doctor of the Carmelites of the Faubourg ranked her books on aesthetics alongside in this donation is the second emended Saint-Jacques in Paris, where undoubtedly Gertrude Bell’s books on Persia and Jane edition of Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac he was able to observe the illnesses of the Harrison’s on Greek archaeology as major pacis (Amsterdam, 1631). Grotius is generally poor of the district which are described intellectual contributions of modern day credited as being the founder of international in this three-volume set. History, travel, women. This collection will give researchers law. His theories on laws between nations classical authors, theology, jurisprudence, an opportunity to make their own conclu- and on moral philosophy are discussed and philosophical texts make up the rest sions. in this work, which is considered to be a of this donation. Professor Stanton has just O’er the main to Canada. Michael foundation of the application of moral law written me that he has prepared thirteen Rehak and Kate Sak, the two students who to the conduct of government. According cartons to be shipped to us later this month. assisted me in the summer of 2007, will to WorldCat, there are no other copies in I can’t wait. long remember the Mason gift. Between Canada Mark Godlewski, the son of the late the three of us, it took most of the summer Dr. Ralph Stanton continues to Karol, who gave us the important collection to compile a list for appraisal purposes. increase and enhance our French literature of Polonica described in these pages in 2002, For many years, the antiquarian bookseller holdings, ably assisted this past year by seems to have caught his father’s collecting David Mason has been collecting “minor” Mrs. Joan Moes, who donated books spirit, as from him we received an extensive British and American novelists in Canadian collected by her husband. Her gift included collection of miniature Elzevir editions. The editions, and as this Library prides itself on the first edition of Beaumarchais’sLe Barbier Elzevirs were a Dutch family of printers, its extensive holdings of Canadian imprints, de Seville (Paris, 1775) and the twenty-one publishers, and booksellers of the seventeenth it was interesting to see how many we failed volumes of Répertoire du théâtre français and early eighteenth centuries. The works to have. (Bruxelles, 1830). Dr. Stanton, whose name that made them famous are the collection Readers of my June 2006 Halcyon article has appeared in these pages many times of French authors on history and politics in might recall the story of the Bostock Ranch over the years, included some 212 titles 24mo, and their 12mo series of Latin, French, founded by the Hon. Hewitt Bostock and (508 volumes) by interesting and important and Italian classics. These editions are its having the first library in the interior of authors in his collection. The oldest book in unsurpassed in elegance of design, neatness, British Columbia. Dr. Alex G. Fallis this 2007 gift is the 1507 edition of Cosme clarity, and regularity of type. (If anything managed to unearth a further 147 titles, 3

Donors of chiefly books given to Bostock’s daughter the extensive Robert Service collection Gifts-in-Kind Ruth by her parents, grandparents and assembled over many years by Garrett her godfather, Sidney Fisher. There are the Herman, who also gave us his Darwin classics: Samuel Pepys, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Collection. These new titles will fill in holes to the Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Laurence in our collection. Holding an edition of the Sterne, and Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Cremation brought back so many memories. Thomas Fisher Original-language editions of French and Service came to Canada from Scotland at German authors, such as de la Rochefoucault, twenty-one. After crossing Canada by train, Alain Le Sage, and Wilhelm Hauff are he found work with a Scottish family in Rare Book featured, perhaps used in the education the Cowichan Valley and later with a cattle of the Bostock children. There are works rancher. After several years of doing odd Library in 2007 to improve young minds: M.J. Schleiden’s jobs up and down the Pacific Coast, he Mrs. Julia Antonoff Mr. John Laughlin Die Pflanze und Ihr Leben and Margaret applied to work at the Canadian Bank of Dr. Margaret Atwood Quennell’s A History of Everyday Things in Commerce. The Bank posted him to various Mr. Don McKay Mr. Frederick Prof. Jack McLeod England, 1066–1499, and religious works to offices throughout British Columbia, finally Bargmann Mr. Alberto Manguel educate them in the teachings of Jesus Christ: sending him to Whitehorse. There, the editor Dr. Rachel Barney Mr. David Mason The Child’s Bible Narrative and The Story of the Whitehorse Star asked Service to Mrs. Miriam Mrs. Joan Moes Beckerman Prof. Michael Millgate of St. Paul’s Life and Letters. These will be write a poem to be recited in church and he Mr. David K. Bernhardt Dr. Karen Mulhallen added to the 2006 donation and kept as a produced “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” Miss Cicely Blackstock Prof. Linda Munk special collection. and a month later the above “Cremation.” Dr. Robert Brandeis Mr. Gavin MacLeod While Brian Moore was born in Ireland A career was born. When he had created Prof. Jennifer Brown Murdock and lived in California latterly, he did enough poems for a book, he offered a Prof. J. Edward Prof. Ira Nadel consider himself a Canadian, retaining publisher one hundred dollars to print it Chamberlin Mr. Stephen Nugent his citizenship despite his move to the for him. The story goes that the publisher Mrs. Eileen Clairmonte United States. The donation by Dr. Jean was so sure the book would sell (having Prof. Eleanor Cook Mrs. Virginia Opper Handscombe is a comprehensive collec- taken over a thousand orders based on the Dr. William Davies Mr. Michael Pantazzi tion of some 150 books by and about Moore, galley proofs of the work) that he returned Dr. Doreen DelVecchio Mr. Alexander Pathy dating from a pulp novel of 1951 through to Service’s money and offered him a contract. Mr. Ron Peters Mrs. Joan Eichner Mr. Damiano his last novel issued in 1999. All of Moore’s The book was published in 1907 in North Mr. Colin Eldridge Pietropaolo works are included and in depth. There America under the title The Spell of the Yukon Ms. Judith Pocock are also several obscure items which only and in England as Songs of a Sourdough. It Mr. Rudyard Fearon Ms. Maureen Price Mrs. Dalia Procuta appeared in anthologies and periodicals. He was an immediate success. He continued Dr. Alex G. Fallis came to Canada in 1948 where he worked as to write and by 1909 was able to leave the Prof. Patricia Fleming Mrs. Bertha Reine a proofreader, reporter, and writer of pulp bank’s employment and devote himself to Prof. Roberta Frank Nancy Reive (estate) Ms. Kati Rekai fiction, while working on his first novel. In full-time writing. Service has been called Mr. Brian Galvin Prof. Douglas 1952 he left all that behind and retreated to “The Canadian Kipling” and “The Poet Ms. Camilla Gibb Richardson a cabin in the Laurentians, emerging several of the Yukon;” his poems are still recited Mr. Graeme Gibson Mrs. Faye Rosenblatt months later with the typescript of Judith around campfires and on the radio; they Mr. Stephen Gilbert Mrs. Carol Rothbart Mr. Mark Godlewski Hearne. When it was published in 1955, it are learnt in school and recorded on tapes Ms. Lorna Goodison Mr. Tim Sauer was a critical success and earned him an and discs. His fame lives on. The collection Mr. Cyril Greenland Prof. Josef Škvorecký Author’s Club First Novel award. The Feast is valuable also for the extensive number of Prof. Phyllis Grosskurth Prof. John Slater Ms. Beverley Slopen of Lupercal followed in 1957, winning him a editions, printings, and variants and will Mr. Ronald Hambleton Prof. Sam Solecki grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. He provide a great opportunity for researchers in Dr. Jean Handscombe Mr. David Solway moved to New York City where he produced twentieth-century Canadian literature, book Ms. Maureen Scott Dr. Ralph Stanton The Luck of Ginger Coffey, the adventures of history, and print culture. It is an important Harris Rev. Douglas Stoute Mrs. Susan Harvie Prof. Rosemary Sullivan an Irish immigrant in Canada. Never one collection for a Canadian institution. Mr. Garrett Herman Dr. H. Leonard and to write the same sort of novel again and Being the staff person responsible for Mr. Marshall Hryciuk Mrs. Sussman again, Moore wrote in a number of genres, printed gifts-in-kind is like getting birthday Mrs. Marguerite Hunt Mr. Martin Hunter Mr. Keith Walden producing works set in a variety of countries, presents all year long, never knowing what Mr. F. Michael Walsh from an island off the coast of Ireland, to will appear in the next box. I love birthdays. Mr. Sydney Jackman Prof. Germaine Montreal, to North Africa. This donation Keep ’em coming! Mr. Nicolas Jamieson Warkentin Mr. George Whipple will considerably enhance the Fisher Library’s Thanks to Michael Rehak, Kate Sak, Mrs. Lorraine Kaake Mr. Bruce Whiteman Canadian Literature Collection Stefan Stojanovic and my current assistant Mrs. Johanna Ms. Mary Williamson One of the most memorable evenings I Nadia Zavorotna for all the work behind the Sedlmayer-Katz Dr. Thomas G.S. spent on a Colorado river rafting trip was scenes. I couldn’t do it without you. Mr. Crad Kilodney Wilson Mr. Stephen Kurtz Prof. Mary P. Winsor the night the passengers and crew sat around A complete list of donors follows this Mr. Richard B. Wright a campfire and heard one of the boatmen article. Prof. David Laidler recite from memory “The Cremation of Luba Frastacky Mr. Terry and Mrs. Mr. David Young Sam McGee.” So I was delighted to receive Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Beatrice Levis 4

Manuscript Acquisitions in 2007

he year 2007 yielded another bumper by Hryciuk and sent to friends and colleagues include: Out Flew the Web and Floated Wide crop of manuscript gifts and acquisi- via e-mail. Haiku notebooks, as well as (1967), Young Hunting (1969), and Flowers tions. Selected highlights: small press imprints bought and collected of Paradise (1971). He has also adapted T by Hryciuk are also included. numerous works, including The Snow Queen Authors/Poets/Literature Martin Hunter’s first-time donation (1969), Medea (1974), Frogs (1975), Timon A highlight of Margaret Atwood’s gift consists of the bulk of his literary output to (1978), and The Marquis of Keith (1979). In this year is the drafts of her 2006 short story date, including manuscript drafts and scripts 1980, he began a career as a freelance writer, collection, Moral Disorder. Included also are of his numerous writing projects for the producer, and director for the stage, screen, short articles, lectures, and speeches related stage, screen, and radio, and various other and radio. His works include the musical to her cultural and environmental concerns writing projects. Educated at the University play Baby Grand (1980), Power Play (1992, and her work with PEN Canada, as well of Toronto, where he received both a BA directed by Richard Monette at the Tarragon as administrative material dealing with the and an MA in English literature, Hunter Theatre in Toronto), and Liars’ Dice (1997, founding of the Griffin Award for Poetry. began his career as a diplomat, working as produced at the Berkeley Street Theatre in The bulk of material contained in this a Foreign Service Officer in the Department Toronto). He has written numerous radio year’s gift from Lorna Goodison of External Affairs between 1955 and 1957. plays, many of which have been produced consists of various earlier [1995- ] and later He began his theatre and writing careers at the CBC. These include: Signor Butterfly drafts of her family memoir, From Harvey River: a memoir of my mother and her people. Early working titles include “Rock Steady,” “Rocksteady,” and “The Rock Steady Dancer.” Editorial revisions and notes by J. Edward Chamberlin are present on several drafts. Drafts of new and unpublished poems for Goldengrove: new and selected poems, as well as reviews, a current CV, a short biography, and an original ink drawing are also included. This year P r o f e s s o r P h y l l i s Grosskurth donated her personal guest book (London and Toronto), with photographs, 1980–1986 (and list of notables, for example, Lord and Lady Longford, Jack McClelland and a host of others), as well as a work in manuscript about John Addington Symonds by Andrew Dakyns. Freelance writer Ronald Hambleton donated a range of material, including interview transcriptions from his broadcast Gift of Lorna Goodison. work for the BBC and CBC from the 1940s and 1950s, some original holograph drafts of while in Europe in 1957, doing production Gift of Crad Kilodney. his poetry, and more recent work, includ- work for film, theatre, and television, as ing an unpublished novel entitled Private well as working as a freelance journalist for (1986), Allies (1987), Johnny Bananas (1988), Performances and some children’s stories. the Daily Telegraph. He began an affiliation La Bolduc (1990), Lives of Girls and Women Maureen Scott Harris donated with the theatre scene at the University of (1992), The Heart Laid Bare (1993), Bangkok manuscript drafts for various projects, Toronto in the mid-1960s. Between 1966 and Blues (1995), and Laurier (1996). including her chapbook The Raven and the 1979, he directed approximately thirty-five This year Crad Kilodney presented Writing Desk (illustrated by Kelly Aitken and productions at Hart House Theatre and the Library with a large, original montage published by Jack Pine Press, 2007), and studio theatres at the University, ranging created by him, started in Houston, Texas in drafts for various freelance writing projects. from fully professional to youth theatre 1968, and finished in 1969 on Long Island. Marshall Hryciuk donated material productions. Poet Don McKay’s first donation to related to a project called “Frankliecyngnoctra,” Hunter has written extensively for the the Library consists of the bulk of his liter- a series of foreign-language poems translated stage and screen. His early original plays ary output since the mid-1990s: manuscript 5

Gift of Don McKay. Gift of Jack McLeod. Gift of Damiano Pietropaolo. drafts (both holograph and typescript) and Poems; National Magazine Award, 1991; the French publisher Actes Sud. This gift also editorial correspondence for the publications Governor General’s Award for Poetry, 1991, includes material from Timothy Findley (and Night Field: Poems (1991), Apparatus (1997), for Night Field; and Griffin Poetry Prize, his partner William Whitehead), primarily Another Gravity (2000), Vis à Vis (2001), 2007, for Strike/Slip. He currently resides in correspondence, but also two books on whose Deactivated West 100 (2005), and Strike/Slip Newfoundland. inside covers Findley wrote notes for two (2006). Manuscripts and other material for This year’s gift from author and profes- novels he was beginning. various writing projects, including poetry for sor Jack McLeod includes the first Karen Mulhallen donated editorial chapbooks and small-press releases, drafts drafts of the first seven chapters of a new material—including manuscripts, page and worksheets of some unpublished work, novel-in-progress, with the working title, proofs, and correspondence—for issues of and essays for a variety of publications are “Mr. Godwin, Out of the Whirlwind”; the Mulhallen-edited literary journal Descant also included. an interview with Jack Macleod by Jack (nos. 133-136), as well as manuscripts and Other materials in this accession include McLeod; copies of letters to John Metcalf, other materials from Mulhallen’s own literary manuscripts from other writers—includ- re: John Newlove, Porcupine’s Quill, and the output. It includes a Renga Talk written in ing Dennis Lee, Barry Dempster, Steve upcoming publication of McLeod’s novel, collaboration with artist Virgil Burnett, and Noyes, Sheri Benning, Lorri Neilsen Glenn Uproar, in 2008. material related to her book Sea Horses (Black and A.F. Moritz—all edited by McKay. Alberto Manguel donated original Moss Press, 2007). Correspondence with various writers and draft manuscripts and translations of his The initial gift of D a m i a n o friends, extensive research material— commissioned articles, reviews, and other Pietropaolo consists of manuscript drafts, primarily holograph—on writers for his projects for a variety of publications, as well production scripts, and production materials teaching, and other material related to his life as manuscripts, proofs, and other related of radio plays and other CBC projects pro- and work round out this accession. Library material for the books he authored, includ- duced and directed by Pietropaolo. Writers and Archives Canada holds earlier donations ing Homer’s The Iliad and the Odyssey: A represented in the collection include Timothy of McKay’s papers. Biography (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, Findley, Carol Shields, Michael Ondaatje, Don McKay was born in Owen Sound, 2007), The Reading Diary, The Library and George Elliot Clarke, among others. Ontario, in 1942. He was educated at the at Night, and The Bride of Frankenstein There is also a small sampling of original University of Western Ontario and the (London: British Film Institute, 1997). Also Doris Lessing material, both manuscripts University of Wales. He has taught creative included is material for several anthologies and correspondence, related to Lessing’s 1985 writing at the University of New Brunswick, edited by Manguel, including The Penguin Massey Lecture. the University of Victoria, and the University Book of Summer Stories (released 2007); Damiano Pietropaolo is a producer/ of Western Ontario. His awards include: correspondence, both general and specific, director, writer, translator, and teacher Governor General’s award nomination, related to his new literary agency, Agencia with an extensive background in senior 1983, 1997; Canadian Authors Association Schavelzon, and material for the book series, management in the arts. He was educated Award for Poetry, 1983 for Birding, or Desire: Cabinet de lecture, which Manguel edits for at the Universities of Toronto and Florence. 6

While he was working on a PhD in drama, his freelance life as actor, writer, and stage director led him to join CBC Radio as a documentary and drama producer. He held a variety of positions at the CBC, includ- ing the directorships of two departments: Radio Drama and Features, and Radio Arts & Entertainment. In the international arena, Damiano led the development of the Worldplay Group in collaboration with other English-language public broadcasters, through which CBC Radio drama is heard across the globe in the annual Wordplay Festival. He has also sat on numerous national and international juries, most Gift of George Whipple. Gift of George Whipple. notably the Prix Futura (Berlin, 1986) and the Prix Ostankino (Moscow, 1996). Over the years, Pietropaolo has garnered a number Massey College, and page proofs, corrections, paintings created in 1962–63 (“originals of national and international awards for his rejections, and editing for A Muddy Hand: lost, alas;” G.W.); nineteen small albums work, including the B’nai Brith award for Selected Poetry of Earle Birney, edited by containing thirty-six original and/or copies human rights programming, three Gabriels Sam Solecki. of drawings, 684 altogether; one large album as drama director, and World Medals and The gift of David Solway this year of photos taken from slides of twenty-nine Silver Medals at the New York Festival. He includes revisions and proofs for his political paintings, plus twelve reproductions of small is a lecturer/seminar leader at the University book, The Big Lie: Terror and Anti-Semitism drawings; some miscellaneous papers, and of Toronto, an Associate of the Graduate in our Time; material for New Wine, Old his tenth book, Kites, published by Ekstasis Centre for the Study of Drama, a lecturer Bottles by Israel Ben Haim; essays for Living Editions in 2007. in interdisciplinary dramaturgy at the in the Valley of Shmoon, an upcoming politi- The first extensive gift of material from University College Drama Program, and cal book; revisions and additions to Reaching noted Canadian author R ich a r d B . a writer and translator whose critical and for Clear; Scattered Rhymes; Peregrines; The Wright includes drafts and manuscripts, personal essays have been published nation- Herb Garden of Bartholomew the Englishman; revisions, proofs, notes, and editorial changes ally and internationally. His translation and correspondence with friends, authors, editors, for most of his work to date, including: stage adaptation of The Fellini Radio Plays publishers, journalists, family, and other Andrew Tolliver (other title: One John A. by Federico Fellini was seen at the Stratford material related to his life and work. Too Many); In the Middle of a Life (working Festival of Canada’s 50th Anniversary season Rosemary Sullivan’s gift consists of title: Landon); Farthing’s Fortunes; The Big in 2002. material related to her work, largely between Rock Candy Mountain, a screenplay based This year Beverley Slopen donated the years 2004 and 2007. It includes manu- on Farthing’s Fortunes; Final Things; The administrative files, including correspond- scripts, correspondence, and research for her Teacher’s Daughter (early titles: Janet Harper, ence with authors, publishers, editors, and book Villa Air-Bel (Harper Collins, 2006), as Crazy Arms); Tourists (parts taken from early other agents; royalty statements; contracts; well as correspondence and materials related draft titled Bestseller: a novel); Sunset Manor book reviews; and other material generated to the MA in Creative Writing Program at (early title: The Old Folks); The Age of Longing by the working activities of the Beverley the University of Toronto, which Sullivan (working title: Presbyterian Blues); Clara Slopen Literary Agency. The bulk of the developed and of which she is director, Callan (early titles: 1943, Radioland, Ordinary accession is made up of manuscripts, and the Banff Centre, where Sullivan was Time, Wonders of Ordinary Time); Adultery; including many first drafts and some as the MacLean Hunter Chair of the Literary The Grief Counsellor, parts of which were yet unpublished material from various Journalism Program from 2003–2006. There incorporated into October (published fall authors represented by Slopen. Among the is also a large collection of correspondence, 2007); as well as unpublished manuscripts: writers represented in this collection are Lita both professional and personal. Sullivan was Orphans (abandoned, November 3, 1980); Rose-Betcherman, Howard Engel, Blanche awarded a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship Boone (first draft unfinished, 1976–77); Howard, Joanna Goodman, Don Gutteridge, for 2008 as well as the Lorne Pierce Medal Rapture (a novel, also called 1919), 1979–80; Donna Morrissey, Marina Nemat, James by the Royal Society of Canada. The Keeper and the Beasts: a modern American Nichol, Joey Slinger, Carrie Snyder, Morley Germaine Warkentin donated fable, 1966–67; The Ladies Club, 1984, Torgov, and William Weintraub. correspondence with Sam Solecki and Mavis various drafts and notes; Hitler’s Child, The gift of Sam Solecki includes Gallant (the latter from 1980). 1986 (other title: The Acolyte by pseudonym, Mavis Gallant correspondence, 1982–1984, The gift of poet and artist George O.R. Skelton), various drafts; unpublished re: the Writer-in-Residence program at Whipple includes forty-one slides of and unsubmitted short stories; Sundays Are 7

the Top 100 Books of the Year by The Globe graphs of the Company’s personnel, a variety and Mail. Wright has been awarded several of tram cars, trolleys, buses, maintenance honourary degrees as well as the Order of trucks, tram stations, rail construction, Canada in 2007. station construction, and Montreal street The gift of David Young consists scenes. of manuscript drafts and correspondence Recent material added to the Peter J. for various projects he worked on between Potichnyi Collection on Insurgency and 2004 and 2007, including Sold, a series he Counter-Insurgency in the Ukraine includes developed for CTV, as well as his work for oral history about the Ukrainian Liberation the TV program ReGenesis. Also included is Struggle in Chernivtsi Oblast; documents material from various productions of Young’s from the Archive of the Soviet Internal plays, Glenn and Inexpressible Island, among Forces (Ukrainian Okrug); Dzhuriak’s other projects. manuscript material on Bukovyna and Litopys UPA correspondence; and other History/Politics related material. Professor Potichnyi normally Eileen Clairmonte donated a long adds new material to this collection on an photograph of the Shanghai Bund, Shanghai, annual basis. Gift of Richard B. Wright. China, taken in 1928. The photo is mounted on cloth, with many buildings identified Family Papers in ink in her father’s hand. This addition Jennifer Brown donated notes, research, For Henry James: A Play For Television; The to the Clairmonte Family papers came just lectures, writings, and a published copy of Hubbards, 1969; A Sunday in Turnerville: a in time to allow us to lend it to the Royal the 1934 PhD thesis of her father, Professor Three Act Play for Television, 1968; Vasectomy: Ontario Museum for their current exhibition, Harcourt Brown, primarily related to French A Story, 1971; Death of a Modern Man: a novel, Shanghai 1860–1949: Historical Photographs. literature and science and some other mate- 1977 (another novel called Families includes Brian Galvin donated a letter from rial related to his academic work. some of the same characters); four poems Mahatma Gandhi. It was written to his father, written in 1969, and finally, God’s Daughter: Major Galvin, on November 18, 1930, at Art/Artists a novel, the first draft from 2005. Yeravda Central Prison, Poona, India—where From anatomical artist Stephen Gilbert Richard Bruce Wright was born on Gandhi was imprisoned at the time. The we received twenty-five original anatomical March 4, 1937, in Midland, Ontario, the holograph note in English asks that his post drawings, specifically nerves and arteries, cre- son of Laverne and Laura Willette (Thomas) be sent out the same day and notes that there ated for Professor Anne Augur; and various Wright. He is married to Phyllis M. Cotton should be a spinning wheel waiting for him drawings for Pictorial Human Embryology. and has two sons, Christopher and Andrew. in the Dispatch Office. This year’s gift from Mrs. Johanna He studied radio and television arts at the This year marks the first gift of manuscript Katz consists primarily of correspondence Ryerson Institute of Technology, graduating material from Alexander Pathy. It from artists to her late husband, Leon in 1959. At Trent University he completed his consists of the research files for Pathy’s Katz, many of them Canadian and many Bachelor of Arts in 1972. Wright has worked book Waterfront Blues: Labour Strife at the represented in Leon Katz’s Memento Book, as a copywriter for radio; as editor and sales Port of Montreal, 1960–1978, published by already held by the Fisher Library. manager at Macmillan Canada; and later as the University of Toronto Press in 2004. My heartfelt thanks to archivist John a teacher of English at Ridley College. He Through his family-owned shipping company, Shoesmith for ‘holding the fort’ during has been the recipient of Canada Council Alexander Pathy was an executive member my leave and for his continuous hard work fellowships, 1971–1972, 1973–1974; the City of of the Shipping Federation Council, which throughout the year. Many thanks are Toronto Book Award in 1974 and the Faber later became the Maritime Employers due to Nadia Zavorotna, for her ongoing Memorial Prize, 1975, for In the Middle of Association (MEA), of which he became the arrangement, description, and translation a Life; an Ontario Arts Council fellowship, first chair in 1969. From 1981 to 1991, Pathy work with various Slavic-language manu- 1975–1976; the Governor General’s Literary was a vice-president of the University of script collections. Sincere thanks and best Award, Government of Canada, the Giller Toronto and professor of management and wishes, once again, to our many donors Prize for Canadian Fiction, the Trillium industrial relations, teaching at the Centre and researchers. Book Award, and the CBA Libris Award for Industrial Relations until his retirement Jennifer Toews for Author of the Year and Fiction Book of in 1995. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library the Year in 2001, for Clara Callan. Adultery TheMontreal Tramways collection was longlisted in 2006 as an International includes black and white photographs related IMPAC Dublin Literary Award nominee. to the early days of the Montreal Tramways Adultery was also named A Best Book of the Company/Compagnie des Tramways de Year by Quill and Quire and as a pick for Montréal, 1904–1956. Included are photo- 8

Fathers—and not rely on later commentaries upon these sources. Since the days of Calvin, the Reformed Protestant tradition had placed Knox College Library an emphasis, drawn from humanism, on the study of ancient languages so that believers could read original texts and interpret n the summer of 2008, the online of its collections, and the Knox deposit is an them for themselves. In preparation for the catalogue of rare books deposited in 1995 excellent example of this. In most libraries, ministry, therefore, Canadian Presbyterian by Knox College, Toronto, was finally donated books would be scattered throughout divinity students in the Victorian era were Icompleted. After five years of arranging and the library according to their subject clas- expected to know the biblical languages as describing, this wonderful collection is now sification. For historical reasons, however, well as Latin. It is not surprising, therefore, fully accessible to the world beyond our walls there is a great advantage in maintaining that besides copies of the Greek New and, happily, it is beginning to see regular use the physical integrity of a library, whether it Testament (including one printed by Thomas once again. Originally intended as the library belonged to an individual or an institution, Platter at Basel in 1538), some forty other for the Knox College Divinity School, the since it provides us with a window into their volumes of ancient geography, philosophy, books are now more likely to be found in the personal or corporate culture. Certainly that history, and literature are printed in either hands of students of book history, English, or is the case with a number of our collections classical or koine Greek. Another twenty, fine art than in those of theologians. Knox including Forbes, Brabant, Walsh, Slater, dating from 1534 to 1790, are Hebrew copies was founded in 1844 as the Presbyterian Academy of Medicine, and most recently, of the Scriptures or rabbinical commentaries seminary for the church in Canada, and Regis College. Now, if anyone wants to upon them. Books printed in Latin, however, began granting theological degrees in 1858. get the sense of what a nineteenth-century represent the largest linguistic group in the After the majority of the faculty and students Protestant divinity student was studying in collection, second only to English. Indeed, joined the United Church of Canada at its Canada, they need only browse through the the oldest book is a collection of the sermons inception in 1925, the familiar neo-gothic collection online, since the books are both of the Dominican missionary, St. Vincent building that stands next to Simcoe Hall physically and virtually kept together with Ferrer (1350–1419), printed in Lyon in 1497. on King’s College Circle was awarded to the the distinctive call number beginning with The College’s collection also reflects the Presbyterian remnant, and remains home to “Knox.” One quickly senses the concerns of controversies in which the Presbyterian Knox and its modern library. As a member those intrepid Scottish ministers who made community has been engaged over the of the Toronto School of Theology for almost their way to this colony more than twenty past five hundred years. Both sides of the forty years, the College continues to grant years before Confederation. Arminian controversy—that strain in the Masters and Doctoral degrees conjointly with One of their intentions was that their Reformed tradition that rejected the strict the University of Toronto. students should be grounded in the original predestinarianism that emerged at Geneva One of the things that the Fisher Library sources of the faith—specifically the Bible in after Calvin’s death—are well represented in does extremely well is preserve the provenance Hebrew and Greek, as well as the Church books such as Thirteene Sermons of Maister Iohn Caluine Entreating of the Free Election of God in Iacob, and of Reprobation in Esau This collection of Calvin’s sermons on predesti- (1579) and Arminius’s own Examen (1612). nation was extremely popular in Puritan circles. Much ink (and perhaps blood) was spilt in the early nineteenth century over the admission of that most papist of instruments, the organ, into the Kirk in Glasgow, as witnessed in A Treatise on the Use of Organs, and Other Instruments of Music, in the Worship of God: in which it is inquired, whether Instrumental Music be authorized by God, in the Worship of the New Testament Church, and by the Constitution and Laws of the Established Church of Scotland (1808). More seriously, both sides in the slavery debate are argued from the authority of Scripture in such titles as William Wilberforce’s Cheap Sugar Means Cheap Slaves (1848) and Charles O’Conor’s Negro Slavery Not Unjust (1859). Clearly, the students of Knox were intentionally exposed to the controversies that would shape their ministries whether they stayed in Canada or found their place in mission fields far from home. The Knox College Library owes its foundation, in many ways, to the efforts of the Rev. Robert Burns (1789–1869), who was a member of the Free Church of Scotland, The 1519 corrected edition of Erasmus’s New Testament which significantly influenced biblical scholar- pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church ship during the Reformation era. (Spadina) from 1845 to 1856, and professor of 9

May of that year his first full-length book for boys, Bert Lloyd’s Boyhood, was published by the American Baptist Publication Society Macdonald Oxley’s Literary Record in Philadelphia, for which he was paid $175. Again, Oxley meticulously records a long list of periodicals in which his book was lmost exactly two years ago, in papers began: “Boys the world over will regret reviewed. The entry also has a note, added October 2006, Mrs. Adele Dibben, to learn of the death of J. Macdonald Oxley later in a different ink: “Republished by of Belleville, appeared at the Fisher of this city, who passed away yesterday. As Hodder & Stoughton, London, G.B. in Areference desk, offering us a manuscript a contributor to the Boys’ Own Paper, his October 1892, £20 being paid me for the notebook compiled by J. Macdonald Oxley, stories of life in the Canadian wilds provided right to do so.” which carried the words “Literary Record” wholesome reading for thousands of juveniles The entries for 1889 continue with Oxley’s on its cover. She stated that she was Oxley’s in every clime where the English tongue first serial story, The Chore-Boy of Camp granddaughter, and had inherited the modest, is spoken” [unidentified Toronto paper, 10 Kippewa, which was published in Our Youth clothbound notebook from her father, and Sept. 1907]. Given his prolific output and from 14 September through 30 November. wondered whether it would be of interest literary success it is surprising to learn that The same year also saw the serialization in to the Library. Upon examination it proved writing was a sideline, rather than Oxley’s the American periodical Santa Claus of The to be a detailed record of Oxley’s entire main occupation. Wreckers of Sable Island, noted by Oxley as literary career, from the publication of his Born and raised in Halifax, Oxley “The initial serial of a new periodical—a first article in 1883 through March 1907, just attended Dalhousie University and then unique honor for a Canadian writer.” June a few months before he died. Harvard Law School. He was admitted to 1892 saw the publication of Oxley’s first J. Macdonald Oxley (1855–1907) is no the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1878 and practised serial in an English periodical, the Religious longer a household name, but he was the law in Halifax for about five years, before Tract Society’s Boy’s Own Paper, which began author, by his own count, of 26 books, 19 accepting an appointment as legal advisor publication in 1879 and continued for almost serial stories, 140 short stories and 248 articles, in the Marine and Fisheries Department in a century, dominating the adolescent market and was widely known as a writer of boy’s Ottawa. In 1892 he became manager of the and bringing Oxley’s work to the attention of stories. His obituary in one of the Toronto Sun Life Assurance Company at their head a huge audience in Great Britain. The note- office in Montreal. He moved to Toronto book continues for another 150 or so pages, around the turn of the century, and died meticulously recording dates, payments, and continued from previous page of tuberculosis at the relatively young age of details of publication for the remainder of 52. Oxley’s writing career began with legal Oxley’s career as a prolific and successful theology (and later church history) at Knox publications. His first article, published in author. According to his own “Statement College from the time of its foundation. the American Law Review for July–August of Literary Earnings 1884–1905” laid into In his zeal to improve the students’ learn- 1883, was entitled “Effect of abandonment the notebook, Oxley’s income as an author ing environment, he solicited some three upon the ship-owners rights to freight.” He totalled $20,231.90. thousand volumes from ministers, especially received no remuneration for it, although in in the Glasgow and Paisley areas, many of his entry in the notebook he records “Noticed which have fine presentation inscriptions by Citizen, Dalhousie College Gazette, Chicago on the front pastedowns. Much of Burns’s Literary Life.” personal library eventually became part of During the next half dozen years he the collection. In order to preserve its own published a variety of current affairs and integrity, we have recorded every instance general interest articles intended for a in which his autograph appears in a book, popular audience, including a biographical thereby allowing us to reconstruct, virtually article on Sir John A. Macdonald published at least, a nineteenth-century Presbyterian in Lippincott’s Magazine in Philadelphia. minister’s library. His work began to appear in many other The Knox College collection is a snapshot Canadian and American periodicals and of a classical, academic world that has largely newspapers—from the Canadian Methodist passed away. It is, however, typical of the sort Magazine, to Our Youth (New York)—and he of library that supported Victorian Protestant records payments of between $10 and $75 per scholarship in Canada. The Regis College article. His first commercial breakthrough collection of Jesuit seminary materials is came in May 1887 when he was paid $150 by now housed right next to it, something Scribner’s Magazine for a piece entitled “An that would have been unthinkable 150 years Ocean Graveyard.” In his notes beside this ago when both libraries were being formed. entry he records a long series of Canadian, The contrasts between the two are indeed American, and British publications in which striking, but even more so are the ways his article was noticed or reviewed, beginning in which they often duplicate one another. with the Ottawa Journal and ending with Perhaps the paths to ministry, then as now, “and others too numerous to note, particularly were not as divergent as the collectors may Literary World (London, G.B.).” In January have thought. 1889 a piece entitled “The Indian in Canada” Pearce J. Carefoote was published in Macmillan’s Magazine in Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library London for which he was paid £10, and in Oxley’s statement of literary earnings. 10

A New Collection of Scottish Poetry Publication details for Oxley’s first book. arlier this year the Fisher Library It is extremely uncommon to have a there is no indication on the British edition acquired an impressive collection of detailed, first-hand record of an author’s of the former title. Oxley’s notebook thus the works of nineteenth-century minor entire lifetime publication history. Although gives us an unusually comprehensive look at EScottish poets from the Edinburgh booksell- a picture can often be pieced together from an extraordinary publishing career. ing firm of John Updike. The approximately a range of sources, including publisher’s In addition to furnishing details of his three hundred volumes in the collection archives and the imprints themselves, even own publication history, the notebook date primarily from the latter half of the the most dedicated and persistent bibli- provides a touchstone for similar authors of century, and were assembled over the course ographer would have difficulty putting the period, who also published widely in both of thirty years by John S. Watson, one of the together a complete record of publication serial and book form. The record of payments owners of the business. The majority of the for a prolific author of this period. The provides a context for the revenue that a titles were seen only once by Watson over recently released Oxley bibliography, one hard-working author, who has identified his the three decades, this rarity or elusiveness of a series of excellent descriptive bibli- own market niche, could hope to attain. It being confirmed by a search of the online ographies of Canadian authors compiled is apparent that even a successful author at catalogues of the major British and North by Tom Vincent [J. Macdonald Oxley : A the turn of the century, publishing with a American libraries which indicate that few Bibliography of the Fiction. Kingston : Loyal variety of Canadian, American, and British copies appear in their holdings. Colonies Press and online at www.bibliofiles. publishers, would have a very hard time The nineteenth century in Britain saw the ca] is based on decades of research and an surviving on literary income alone. Oxley’s spread of literacy, and a consequent expansion examination of many copies, but it can be notebook further illuminates the network of of book, newspaper, and periodical publish- further augmented by the author’s own connections between publishers, reviewers, ing as well as an increase in the number of notes. For example, for Oxley’s first serial and readers, giving us a snapshot of both circulating libraries. The emergence of a strong story published in 1889 under the title The distribution and audience reception which print culture in Scotland, in part stimulated Chore-Boy of Camp Kippewa, Vincent lists would take years to compile through any by the popularity of writers such as Robert its subsequent publication in book form in other means. The notebook deserves much Burns, “the ploughman poet,” and Sir Walter Philadelphia in 1891, having examined two further study and analysis. It is available Scott, led to a dramatic upsurge not only in copies, although this work is exceedingly for consultation at the Fisher Library and readership, but also in the number of men scarce with only a single copy recorded in has been digitized to make it available to and women writing fiction, essays, and most WorldCat. Oxley’s entry in the notebook a wider audience. We are very grateful to especially, poetry. This development is very indicates that it was published three years Mr. Oxley’s granddaughter for recognizing much reflected in the Watson collection, later in an English edition by Nelson & Sons its significance, and for donating it to the poets representing a broad cross-section under a different title, The Young Woodsman. the Library, where it greatly enriches our of Scottish society—academics, advocates, Although Vincent describes three different Canadian literary archival holdings. ministers, professional writers—middle class, impressions of the Nelson edition of The Anne Dondertman well-educated individuals steeped in the Young Woodsman, he does not link it with the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library canonical literature of Shakespeare, Milton, entry for The Chore-Boy of Camp Kippewa, as and Spenser. At the same time and of particular interest, however, are the volumes 11

Although the established publishing centres of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen are well represented, the collection contains scarce and unusual imprints issued by local printers in smaller communities scattered across the length and breadth of the country, from the Scottish border towns of Galashiels, Kelso, and Selkirk, to Ardrossan, Largs, and Saltcoats on the west coast, and to the northern towns of Banchory, Peterhead, and Wick. Many volumes were produced at the author’s expense or funded by soliciting subscriptions from family, friends, and acquaintances, and tend to be bound in a variety of publishers’ cloth or, in a few instances, with printed paper covers. The bindings of some books, in various Examples of cloth covers and the title page of Poems by Thomas Kennedy. shades of red, blue, green, brown, or black pebbled cloth, are quite plain and devoid of of poetry written by men and women of more run through their work include the political, any decoration; others are more elaborate, with humble or modest birth: the “labouring-class” religious or devotional, pastoral, romantic, bevelled edges, front panels with black ruled poets, a social phenomenon that first appeared sentimental, humorous, and historical, the borders, vignettes, titles and authors’ names in the eighteenth century but grew rapidly latter frequently taking the form of celebrat- in gilt, and coated endpapers laid down. during the nineteenth. Recent scholarship ing the achievements of iconic figures from The poems themselves speak most elo- has identified approximately 1,400 British Scotland’s past like William Wallace and quently about the conditions in Victorian labouring-class poets active between 1700 and Robert the Bruce, and the battles they fought Britain, and it is appropriate to let a labouring- 1900, of whom well over half were writing during the wars of independence, Stirling class poet have the last word. Below are after 1850. A disproportionate number of these Bridge, and Bannockburn. Local or regional the first three and last three stanzas of the self-taught poets lived in Scotland. Variously themes encompassing Scottish customs and poem “The Miner,” written by Arthur Wilson, employed as labourers, miners, handloom culture also appear with some regularity, the himself a miner who took every opportunity weavers, farmers, ploughmen, shepherds, poems frequently rendered in the Scottish to write down verses as they came to him. blacksmiths, soldiers and sailors, these men dialect. Most of the labouring-class poets and women endured harsh lives. What formal had no thought of appealing to a readership Beneath the sod, aye, fathoms ’neath education they did receive often ended by beyond their own locality, and certainly not The emerald-coloured field, their tenth birthday because of the need to beyond their social class. The gallant miner faces death earn a wage to support their families. The While often first publishing their verse in In shapes both grim and wild. poets’ backgrounds are on occasion made local newspapers or regional periodicals, some explicit in the prefaces to their volumes of authors nevertheless achieved a national audi- There danger lurks in ev’ry hole verse. W. Lindsay Alexander, introducing ence. Alexander Anderson (1845–1909), born And cavity, as well; John Taylor’s Poems Chiefly on Themes of in Dumfriesshire, the son of a quarryman There is no warning hand to toll Scottish Interest (1875), emphasizes the point and described as “the first navvy poet”, is The miner’s danger bell. that the poet was “one of those who had to a case in point. As well as his first book, A cultivate literature under the disadvantages Song of Labour and Other Poems (1873), the For there the scorching fire doth lurk arising from imperfect early education, and collection includes his Songs of the Rails (1878), In ev’ry nook and seam, amid difficulties and discouragements of a which contains a selection of railway poems And after-damp does death’s dark work, labourer’s lot, and a life of vicissitude and that had already been published elsewhere. To take away life’s dream. toil.” The preface to John Davidson’s Poems William Welsh, a Peeblesshire cottar or (1860) states that his “life was a blameless and peasant farmer, wrote a single book of poetry, Withal, yet can the miner toil— industrious one, spent in the diligent exercise Poetical and Prose Works, which went through He is a cheerful man, of his calling as a wright and carpenter.” three editions, the first two printings of 1,000 Although he knows he’s oft the spoil Despite the struggle to earn a livelihood, copies each having sold out. David Wingate Of Death’s dark, brooding van. the impulse to write proved irresistible, the (1828–1892), a coal miner from the age of “taste for the muses” a compelling force that nine who later became a colliery manager, is He puts his trust in Providence— shaped the self-expression of these men and represented in the Watson collection by three On God, Great King above, women. Their backgrounds may account for collections of verse including Annie Weir and And knows that He will recompense the protestations or disclaimers regarding the Other Poems (1866). Women, too, appeared in A miner’s trusting love. literary merit of the verses presented to the print, and a few developed a broad readership. public, such as that appearing in the cloth- Janet Hamilton (1795–1873) began work at the Then ne’er despise the miner lad, measurer Robert Ford’s Hame-spun Lays & age of seven spinning yarn from her home. But love him as a brother; Lyrics (1878): “To the name of poet—a being Despite bearing ten children (of whom seven Though toiling days on earth he had, inspired—I lay no claim, and have none.” survived into adulthood) and the domestic He’ll get rest in another. Inspired or not, the poets’ writings reflect the responsibilities associated with raising a large Victorian society of which they were a part. family, she published her first book in 1863 Graham Bradshaw Not unexpectedly, the common themes that and achieved national acclaim. Collection Development, Robarts Library 12

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