But That Has All Changed Now: Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
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But That Has All Changed Now - Mary Alice Downie
Early Voices
EDITED BY MARY ALICE DOWNIE
AND BARBARA ROBERTSON
WITH ELIZABETH JANE ERRINGTON
Early Voices
Portraits of Canada by
Women Writers, 1639–1914
Copyright © Mary Alice Downie and Elizabeth Jane Errington, 2010
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Early voices : portraits of Canada by women writers, 1639-1914 / by Mary Alice Downie and Barbara Robertson ; with Elizabeth Jane Errington.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also available in electronic format.
ISBN 9781554888320
1. Women pioneers--Canada--History. 2. Women--Canada--History. 3. Women pioneers--Canada--Biography. 4. Canadian prose literature--Women authors. I. Downie, Mary Alice, 1934- II. Robertson, Barbara, 1931- III. Errington, Elizabeth Jane, 1951-
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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and Livres Canada Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
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Front cover image: Winter Scene by Frances Anne Hopkins. Library and Archives Canada, C-013581. Back cover image: W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library, Queen’s University.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Our Assorted Ancestors
The Diversity of Voices
29. Lydia Campbell (1818–1905)
But That Has All Changed Now
Bibliography
About the Editors
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