• Our project
  • How to use our site
  • Authors lists
    • Authors completed
    • Authors to be included
    • Author “snapshots”
    • Authors to be evaluated
    • Authors using pseudonyms
    • Resource list
    • Authors not included (for researchers)
  • Comprehensive Index of Contributors to the Crucible Magazine, 1932-1943
  • Index of Female Contributors to The Canadian Poetry Magazine, 1936-1950
  • A series of lists
    • Canadian periodicals online at ECO
    • A complete list of Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks, 1925-1962
      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 4: The Captive Gypsy (1926), by Constance Davies-Woodrow
      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 5: The Ear Trumpet (1926), by Annie Charlotte Dalton
      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 77: Songs, Being a Selection of Earlier Sonnets and Lyrics (1937), by Helena Coleman
    • Pseudonyms: Known and unknown
    • Some anonymous texts online at ECO
    • Women of Canada (1930)
  • Resource websites

Canada's Early Women Writers: Authors lists

~ A growing list of Canada's English-language women writers from the beginning to 1950

Canada's Early Women Writers: Authors lists

Monthly Archives: December 2017

“While the Snow Falls,” by Clara Hopper

30 Saturday Dec 2017

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Poetry

≈ Leave a comment

Hopper, Clara. “While the Snow Falls.” The Vancouver Poetry Society, 1916-1949: A Book of Days (Toronto: Ryerson, 1946): 86.

“Wolfe at Louisburg,” by Mrs. Logie Macdonnell

28 Thursday Dec 2017

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Poetry

≈ Leave a comment

Macdonnell, Mrs. Logie. “Wolfe at Louisburg.” Hearts of Gold: Being Chronicles of Heroism in Canadian History. Ed. Jean Blewett (Toronto: Ontario Women’s Liberal Association, 1915): 17.

I was looking for information about one of our authors, Blanche Lucile Macdonnell (c1847-1924), and came across this poem in Hearts of Gold, edited by another of our authors, Jean Blewett. The full text is available online courtesy of the Internet Archive, but I thought I would post this poem here to see if anyone knows the identity of Mrs. Logie Macdonnell. Blanche Macdonnell, it turns out, never married.

 

“The Northland Regales,” by Elmar [Elma] Machan

24 Sunday Dec 2017

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Fiction and other arts

≈ Leave a comment

Machan, Elmar [Elma]. “The Northland Regales.” Christian Science Monitor (Boston) 12.42.

Elma Machan’s daughter, Vivian Moreau, has sent us a number of her mother’s published pieces, but many of them are from old, tattered copies of magazines and thus missing essential parts of the stories. There is a particularly interesting article in the Christian Science Monitor about the departure of a polar expedition, “Roof of the World: Research Party Leaving Churchill by Snowmobile February 14 to Study Frozen Northland,” but that is missing the bottom of the first page. This story of the Northland, however, we have in its entirety. So here is a lovely tale to share on Christmas Eve.

“Snow,” by Jennie E. Haight

21 Thursday Dec 2017

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Poetry

≈ Leave a comment

Haight, Jennie E. “Snow.” Selections from Canadian Poets: With Occasional Critical and Biographical Notes, and an Introductory Essay on Canadian Poetry. Ed. Edward Hartley Dewart (Montreal: Lovell, 1864).

This seems appropriate for this week in Vancouver…

“Christmas Song,” by Isa Grindlay Jackson

20 Wednesday Dec 2017

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Jackson, Isa Grindlay. “Christmas Song.” Lethbridge Herald (22 December 1945) 13.

The Sisters McGregor

15 Friday Dec 2017

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Biography, Poetry

≈ Leave a comment

Tucked deep within our original entry on Gertrude MacGregor Moffat (1884-1923) was the comment that her youngest sister, Enid (b. 1889), contributed poetry to the Canadian Bookman. We, however, did not have her listed, so that needed fixing. I discovered that she not only submitted poetry to Canadian Bookman, but also poetry and prose to the McMaster University Monthly. I also discovered, searching for a bit more biography in the McMaster publication, that a number of our other authors published there as well.

While Enid graduated from McMaster with a BA in 1912, Gertrude attended for only one year (likely around 1901) before ill health forced her to abandon her formal studies.

Here are two poems, one by each sister, published in the November 1920 issue of the McMaster University Monthly.

(Note that, alone among her siblings, Gertrude changed the spelling of her name to MacGregor.)

 

McMaster University Monthly 30.2 (November 1920): 53.

McMaster University Monthly 30.2 (November 1920): 59.

A poem for December 12th by Francis Rye

12 Tuesday Dec 2017

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Poetry

≈ Leave a comment

Rye, Francis. [Entry for December 12]. Canadian Birthday Book. Ed. Seranus [Susan Frances Harrison]. Toronto: Robinson, 1887.

rye-dec-12

“On the Silk-worm and Other Fibre-Yielding Insects, and the Growth of Their Food Plants in Canada,” by Dr. Lucy Lawson

08 Friday Dec 2017

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Fiction and other arts

≈ Leave a comment

Here’s a fun article. Well, I guess “fun” might be the wrong term, but at least relatively unique in terms of what I come across while researching our authors. This one I found because her name was close in our list to Alice, Jessie, and Kate Lawson, mother (Jessie) and daughters (Alice and Kate) in a prolific and fascinating family. About Lucy Stapley Lawson we know far less, but she did publish this article in the Annals of the Botanical Society of Canada in 1861, rather early for Canadian female scientists. As always, any other information people can provide about her will be welcome.

Lawson, Mrs Dr [Dr. Lucy Stapley Lawson]. “On the Silk-worm and Other Fibre-Yielding Insects, and the Growth of Their Food Plants in Canada.” Annals of the Botanical Society of Canada (1861): 43-48.

“Christmas Trees,” by Miriam Stein

05 Tuesday Dec 2017

Posted by Karyn Huenemann in Poetry

≈ Leave a comment

Stein, Miriam. “Christmas Trees.” Montreal in Verse: An Anthology of English Poetry by Montreal Poets. Ed. Writers of the Poetry Group. Montreal; QB: Canadian Authors Association; 1942. 40.

Blogroll

  • Female Poets of the First World War

Links to other projects

  • American Verse Project
  • Canada's Early Women Writers at CWRC
  • Canada's Early Women Writers at SFU
  • Canadian Magazines
  • Canadian War Brides of the First World War
  • Canadian Writers Abroad
  • Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory
  • Database of Canada's Early Women Writers
  • Magazines, Travel, and Middle-brow Culture in Canada, 1920-1960
  • Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles
  • Winnifred Eaton Archive
  • Women in Book History, edited by Cait Croker and Kate Ozment

Pages

  • Our project
  • How to use our site
  • Authors lists
    • Authors completed
    • Authors to be included
    • Author “snapshots”
    • Authors to be evaluated
    • Authors using pseudonyms
    • Resource list
    • Authors not included (for researchers)
  • Comprehensive Index of Contributors to the Crucible Magazine, 1932-1943
  • Index of Female Contributors to The Canadian Poetry Magazine, 1936-1950
  • A series of lists
    • Canadian periodicals online at ECO
    • A complete list of Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks, 1925-1962
      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 4: The Captive Gypsy (1926), by Constance Davies-Woodrow
      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 5: The Ear Trumpet (1926), by Annie Charlotte Dalton
      • Ryerson Poetry Chapbook 77: Songs, Being a Selection of Earlier Sonnets and Lyrics (1937), by Helena Coleman
    • Pseudonyms: Known and unknown
    • Some anonymous texts online at ECO
    • Women of Canada (1930)
  • Resource websites

Posts and poems

  • December 2022
  • September 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • September 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • July 2011
  • April 2011

Visitors

  • 148,928 hits

Canada\’s Early Women Poets

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 730 other subscribers

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • Canada's Early Women Writers: Authors lists
    • Join 248 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Canada's Early Women Writers: Authors lists
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...