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The Cromaboo Mail Carrier

A Canadian Love Story

by (author) James Thomas Jones

edited by Douglas Lochhead

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 1973
Category
Canadian, General, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487590635
    Publish Date
    Dec 1973
    List Price
    $35.95

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Description

A Canadian love story about Robbie Smith, a 19-year-old mail carrier travelling the old gravel roadway (now Highway 124) between Cromaboo (Erin) and Gibbeline (Guelph). One day on his travels he sees Miss Mary Paxton, an unwed lady, 14 years his senior. He falls in love with her. And so begins our tale.

About the authors

James Thomas Jones [Mary Leslie] (1842-1920) was, in fact, a woman and James Thomas Jones was her pen name. Mary Leslie. She taught drawing in Canada, and also wrote a great deal under the pseudonym "James Thomas Jones" or simply "J.T.J." Her first novel, The Cromaboo Mail Carrier (1878) was originally banned in Erin, Ontario, because its outspokenness offended some of the citizens.

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In the spring of 2001, Douglas Lochhead received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts from the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Member of the Order of Canada, the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities, Professor Emeritus at Mount Allison University, Senior Fellow and Founding Librarian at Massey College, University of Toronto, and a life member of the League of Canadian Poets. After beginning his career as an advertising copywriter, he became a librarian, a professor of English, a specialist in typography and fine hand printing, and a bibliographer, scholar, and editor — indeed, he has characterized himself as “an unrepentant generalist.” At Mount Allison University, he was a founder and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies, and he held the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies.

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