Edward William Thompson (1849-1924) was the most skillful Canadian story teller of the time. Thompson's best stories have the local colour of the Glengarry and Ottawa River settings and at the same time, show an awareness of the realism which is not at all evident on other Canadian writers of that time.

EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON (1849-1924) was an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe for ten years, and then moved to Boston as revising editor and short story writer for the Youth's Companion. He returned to Canada in 1901 and became the Canadian correspondent for the Boston Evening Transcript. Transcending narrow party loyalists, he took controversial stands on such issues as free trade and Canadian nationalism and his political attitudes became even more readical over the years. He published a number of literary works including Between Earth and Sky (1897) and The Many Mansioned House and Other Poems (1909).

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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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