University of Alberta

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Employer Margaret Atwood
Back in Toronto between periods of study, MA took a job in 1963 with a market research company, and then taught at the University of British Columbia , 1964-5.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
After this she taught briefly at...
Material Conditions of Writing Margaret Atwood
While writer-in-residence at the English Department of the University of Alberta , MA contributed to the department's short-lived periodical called The Merry Devil of Edmonton, 1969-71. Other contributors included Bert Almon , Douglas Barbour
Occupation Olive Senior
She has taught creative writing at many universities in North America, the Caribbean, Australia, and Europe. She is currently (2015) a Faculty member at the Humber School for Writers at Humber College in Toronto...
Publishing Mary Cholmondeley
MC 's best-known and most controversial novel, Red Pottage, was published by Edward Arnold .
The University of Alberta copy of Red Pottage contains a brief inscription from MC to Rhoda Broughton .
Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol.
20
, No. 2, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28.
214
Publishing Mary Cholmondeley
MC produced three more novels following Red Pottage: Moth and Rust (1902, reprinted 1977), Prisoners (Fast Bound in Misery and Iron), 1906, and Notwithstanding, 1913 (published in the United States as After...
Publishing Anna Maria Mackenzie
The first volume has a frontispiece (two women meeting a man in armour) and the title-page quotes some lines about the insecurity of a throne won through ambition. These are ascribed to Fielding 's Merope...
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The Minerva Press edition of 1801, not listed in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in a few copies (one of which is in the University of Alberta library at Edmonton). An...
Publishing Charlotte Nooth
The copy at the University of Alberta has nine names added in manuscript to the end of a subscribers list which already includes Mary Matilda Betham , Lady Eleanor Butler , Harriet Bowdler and her...
Reception Frances Browne
Such texts as this were often used as rewards. The copy among the Special Collections holdings at the University of Alberta is a presentation copy, given by a Unitarian Sunday School in 1900.
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
While the Bodleian Library copy is perfect, the copy at the University of Alberta has been misprinted in such a way as to shuffle early pages out of sequence. The title-page, list of contents, two...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
In her third volume of autobiography, The Years of the Shadow, KT delved more deeply into Irish tradition and culture, presenting discussions of superstitions, legends, and traditional stories.
The University of Alberta copy of...
Textual Production Christopher St John
CSJ wrote a biographical introduction to Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig, edited by Eleanor Adlard .
The University of Alberta Library copy contains a handwritten note from CSJ that reads: To Christopher Wood In...
Textual Production Constance Smedley
The American title echoes Dryden 's All for Love (Act 4, scene 1): Men are but children of a larger growth. The book is dedicated To Another Father and Mother in gratitude for a wide...
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS contributed several titles to her Wellington publisher's undated collection Houlston 's Series of Tracts. The copy now at the University of Alberta was once owned by E. M. Forster , who pasted his bookplate into it.
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
The University of Alberta has an uncorrected proof copy which differs in some respects from the version then published.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
This initiated a series of story collections which MA has continued to produce alongside her better-known...

Timeline

1797: R. Dutton published, anonymously, The Advertisement...

Writing climate item

1797

R. Dutton published, anonymously, The Advertisement for a Husband, A Novel; in a Series of Letters, between Belinda Blacket, Louisa Lenox, and others.
The Advertisement for a Husband. R. Dutton, 1797, 2 vols.
The Dutton firm was formerly Vernor and Hood . Bibliographers Raven

1895: Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible...

Building item

1895

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 's The Woman's Bible was published in New York.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
226
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Gordon, Linda. “A Passion for Equality”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xxiii
, No. 1, Jan.–Feb. 2006, pp. 3-4.
3-4
The first-edition copy at the University of Alberta was the one presented by the author to Susan B. Anthony .

Texts

Bold, Christine. “Cowboys and Publishers: U.S. Popular Print Culture, 1880-1924”. PopPrint. Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures—Past and Present, Local and Global, University of Alberta.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
Carson-Batchelor, Rhonda Lea. Margaret Oliphant: Gender, Identity, and Value in the Victorian Periodical Press. University of Alberta, 1998.
Gamache, Pierre. “Library and Archives Canada: Popular Content and Access”. PopPrint. Continuities and Innovations: Popular Print Cultures—Past and Present, Local and Global, University of Alberta.
Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta, 2003.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
Henitiuk, Valerie. Embodied Boundaries. University of Alberta.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
Magrath, Jane. Corporal Punishment: Women’s Bodies and Their Eighteenth-Century Readers. University of Alberta.
Marples, David. “Far From Quiet on the Eastern Front”. Ideas, University of Alberta, p. 6.
McLean-Fiander, Kimberly R. D. A Critical Edition of Rachel Speght’s Mortalities Memorandum. University of Alberta, 1992.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
Michael-Johnston, Georgina. Helen Maria Williams: Liberty, Sensibility, and Education. University of Alberta, 1998.
Miller, Peter J. The Education of the English Lady, 1770-1820. University of Alberta, 1969.
O’Malley, Andrew. The Creation of the Modern Child Subject: Children’s Literature, Pedagogy, Pediatrics, and the Politics of Class in Late Eighteenth-Century England. University of Alberta, 1999.
Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder. From Antagonism to Agonism: Shifting Paradigms of Women’s Opposition to the State. University of Alberta.
Robertson, Leslie. Soldiers, Heroes, Men: Marlborough, Wellington, and the Warrior as Model of Ideal Masculinity. University of Alberta.
Rourke, Sherri. The Lichfield Circle and Female Education. University of Alberta, 1985.