Re(dis)covering Our Foremothers
Nineteenth-Century Canadian Women's Writers
- Publisher
- University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1989
- Category
- Feminist
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776616810
- Publish Date
- Jan 1989
- List Price
- $9.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780776601977
- Publish Date
- Jan 1989
- List Price
- $15.00
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Description
The modern literary searchlight has flushed out Canada’s long neglected nineteenth century female writers. New critical approaches are advocated and others are encouraged to take on the difficulties – and rewards – of research into the lives of our foremothers.
About the author
Lorraine McMullen is professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa and adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. She is co-editor of a three-volume anthology of short stories written by Canadian women: Pioneering Women: Beginnings to 1880; Aspiring Women: 1880-1900 and New Women: 1900-1920 (UOP: 1993, 1993 and 1991) and co-author of Silenced Sextet: Six Nineteenth-Century Canadian Women Novelists (1993).