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Literary Criticism Feminist

Re(dis)covering Our Foremothers

Nineteenth-Century Canadian Women's Writers

edited by Lorraine McMullen

Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1989
Category
Feminist
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780776616810
    Publish Date
    Jan 1989
    List Price
    $9.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776601977
    Publish Date
    Jan 1989
    List Price
    $15.00

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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).

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