MANITOBA
BORDERS:
WOMEN WRITING OVER THE LINE
A historical overview of ten Manitoba Women
Writers
Personal Bibliographies of the Writers
The
Pioneers
Frances Marion Beynon (1884-1951)
E. Cora Hind (1861-1942)
Nellie McClung (1873-1951)
The Literary Founders
Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996)
Vera Lysenko (1910-1975)
Martha Ostenso (1900-1963)
Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983)
The Third Wave
Margaret Laurence (1926-1987)
Adele Wiseman (1928-1992)
The Pioneers
Frances
Marion Beynon
Writing by Beynon
Aleta Dey. London: C. W. Daniel, 1919.
Writing about Beynon
Hicks, Anne. "Francis Beynon and the
Guide." in First Days Fighting Days: Women in Manitoba History. Ed. Mary
Kinnear. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, 1987. 41-52.
Hicks, Anne. "Introduction to Aleta Dey
by Francis Marion Beynon." Aleta Day. London: Virago Press, 1988. v-xv.
- Jan Horner
Cora Hind
Writing by Hind
My Travels and Findings. Toronto: MacMillan,
1939.
Red River Jottings. 1905.
Writing about Hind
E.Cora Hind. Winnipeg: Manitoba Culture
Heritage and Recreation, Historic Resources Branch, 1984.
Bumsted, J. M. "Hind, Ella Cora." Dictionary
of Manitoba Biography. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999. 111-112.
Gutkin, Harry and Gutkin, Mildred. "Give Us
Our Due!: How Manitoba Women Won the Vote," Manitoba History 32 ( 1996):
12-25.
This article also mentions Nellie McClung and Francis Marion
Beynon.
Hacker, Carlotta. E. Cora Hind. Don Mills,
Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1979.
Haig, Kenneth M. Brave Harvest: the Life Story
of E. Cora Hind. Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1945.
Mason, Helen. Settlement of the West: Cora Hind,
Journalist. Toronto: Grolier, 1990.
Sanders, Byrne Hope. Famous Women: Carr, Hind,
Gullen, Murphy. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1958.
Silverman, Eliane Leslau. "Hind, Ella
Cora." Canadian Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers,
1988. Volume 2. 988.
- Carol Budnick
Nellie Letitia McClung
Writing by McClung
All We Like Sheep and Other Stories.
Toronto: Allen, 1926.
Be Good to Yourself: A Book of Short Stories.
Toronto: Allen, 1930.
The Beauty of Martha. London: Hutchinson,
1923.
The Black Creek Stopping-House and Other Stories.
Toronto: Briggs, 1912.
Clearing in the West: My Own Story, volume
1. Toronto: Allen, 1935; New York: Revell, 1936.
Flowers for the Living: A Book of Short Stories.
Toronto: Allen, 1931.
In Times Like These. Toronto: McLeod &
Allen, 1915; New York: Appleton, 1915.
Leaves from Lantern Lane. Toronto: Allen,
1936.
More Leaves from Lantern Lane. Toronto:
Allen, 1937.
The Next of Kin: Stories of Those Who Wait and
Wonder. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917; Toronto: Allen, 1917.
Painted Fires. Toronto: Allen, 1925; New
York: Dodd, Mead, 1925; London: Fischer, 1926.
Purple Springs. Toronto: Allen, 1921; Boston
& New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1922; London: Hutchinson, 1922.
The Second Chance. Toronto: Briggs, 1910;
New York: Doubleday, 1910; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922.
Sowing Seeds in Danny. Toronto: Briggs,
1908; New York & London: Doubleday, Page, 1908. Republished as Danny and the Pink
Lady. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.
The Stream Runs Fast: My Own Story, volume
2. Toronto: Allen, 1945.
Three Times and Out: Told by Private Simmons,
by McLung and Mervin C. Simmons. Toronto: Allen, 1918; New York & Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1918.
When Christmas Crossed "The Peace."
Toronto: Allen, 1923.
Writing About McClung
Buss, Helen M. "The Different Voice of
Canadian Feminist Autobiographers." Biography 13:2 (1990): 154-67.
Hallett, Mary and Marilyn Davis. Firing the
Heather: The Life and Times of Nellie L. McClung. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1993.
A Manitoba Story. Dir. Don Campbell.
Videocassette. Manitoba Dept. of Education, Media Productions Branch, 1985.
Matheson, Given and V. E. Lang. "Nellie
McClung: ‘Not a Nice Woman." in Matheson’s Women in the Canadian Mosaic.
Toronto: Martin, 1976. 1-20.
Savage, Candace. Our Nell: A Scrapbook Biography
of Nellie L. McClung. Saskatoon: Western Producer, 1979.
- Jan Horner
The
Literary Founders
Dorothy
Livesay
Writing by Livesay
Livesay, Dorothy. Beginnings. Winnipeg:
Peguis Publishers, 1988. Reprint of A Winnipeg Childhood. Winnipeg: Peguis, 1973.
Collected Poems of Dorothy Livesay: the Two
Seasons. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972.
Day and Night. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1944.
Journey With My Selves: a Memoir 1909 - 1963.
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991.
Poems for People. Toronto: Ryerson Press,
1947.
Right Hand Left Hand. Erin, Ontario: Press
Porcepic, 1977.
Selected Poems of Dorothy Livesay, 1926 - 1956.
With an Introduction by Desmond Pacey. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1957.
Writing about Livesay
Foulks, Debbie. "Livesay’s Two Seasons of
Love." Canadian Literataure no.74 (1977): 63-73.
Leland, D. "Dorothy Livesay: Poet of
Nature," Dalhousie Review 51 (Autumn 1971): 404-412.
McInnis Nadine. Dorothy Livesay’s Poetics
of Desire. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1994.
A Public and Private Voice: Essays on the Life
and Work of Dorothy Livesay. Edited by Lindsay Dorney, Gerald Noonan and Paul Tiessen.
Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo Press, 1986.
Stevens, Peter. Dorothy Livesay: Patterns in a
Poetic Life. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992.
Stevens, Peter. "Dorothy Livesay, the Love
Poetry." Canadian Literature no.47 (Winter 1971): 26-48.
Thompson, Lee Briscoe. "A Coat of Many
Cultures: the Poetry of Dorothy Livesay." Journal of Popular Culture 15.3
(Winter 1981): 53-61.
Thompson, Lee Briscoe. Dorothy Livesay.
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987.
Varma, Prem. "The Love Poetry of Dorothy
Livesay." Journal of Canadian Poetry 3.1 (Winter 1980): 17-31.
Zimmerman, Susan. "Livesay’s
Houses." Canadian Literature no.61 (Summer 1974): 77-82.
- Carol Budnick
Vera Lysenko
Writing by Lysenko
Men in Sheepskin Coats: a Study in Assimilation.
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1947.
Westerly Wild. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1956.
Yellow Boots: a Novel. Edmonton: NeWest:
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1992.
Writing about Lysenko
Aponiuk, Natalia. "The Problem of
Identity: the Depiction of Ukrainians in Canadian Literature." Canadian Ethnic
Studies 14.1 (1982): 50-61.
"Lysenko, Vera." Encyclopedia of
Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. volume 3. 252.
Glynn, Alexandra Kruchka. "Reintroducing Vera
Lysenko - Ukrainian Canadian Author." Journal of Ukrainian Studies 15.1
(1990): 53-70.
Glynn, Alexandra Kruchka. "Vera Lysenko:
Growing Up in North Winnipeg." Selected Papers Presented at the National Centenary
Conference Marking the 100th Anniversary of Ukrainian Immigration to Canada,
Toronto. June 9-10, 1990. Toronto: Canadian Society for Ukrainian Labour Research,
1994. 44-52.
Glynn, Alexandra Kruchka. "Vera Lysenko’s
Men in Sheepskin Coats (1947): the Untold Story." Journal of Ukrainian Studies
16.1-2 (1991): 219-229.
Mycak, Sonia. "Simple Sentimentality or
Specific Narrative Strategy? The Functions and Use of Nostalgia in the Ukrainian Canadian
Text." Canadian Ethnic Studies 30.1 (1998): 50-63.
Compares Yellow Boots with a Kostash screen play
and the drama Kyla’s Christmas Concert. May be too sophisticated for a high school
audience.
Rasporich, Beverly. "Folk Art and Ethnicity on
the Prairies: Lysenko, Kurelek, Suknaski and Sapp." Prairie Forum 23.2 (1998):
183-196.
Rasporich, Beverly. "Retelling Vera Lysenko: a
Feminist and Ethnic Writer." Canadian Ethnic Studies 21.2
(1989): 38-52.
Rasporich, Beverly. "Vera Lysenko’s
Fictions: Engendering Prairie Spaces." Prairie Forum 16.2
(1991): 249-263.
Story, Nora. "Lysenko ,Vera." The
Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Toronto: Oxford University Press,
1967. 473.
- Carol Budnick
Martha
Ostenso
Writing by Ostenso
And They Shall Walk: The Life Story of
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, by Ostenso and Kenny. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1943.
The Dark Dawn. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1926;
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927.
A Far Land: Poems by Martha Ostenso. New
York: Seltzer, 1924.
Love Passed This Way. New York: Dodd, Mead,
1942.
The Mad Carews. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927;
London: Heinemann, 1928.
A Man Had Tall Sons. New York: Dodd, Mead,
1958.
The Mandrake Root. New York: Dodd, Mead,
1938.
Milk Route. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948.
Prologue to Love. New York: Dodd, Mead,
1932.
O River, Remember! New York: Dodd, Mead,
1943; London: Long, 1945.
The Stone Field. Toronto: McClelland &
Stewart, 1937; New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937.
The Sunset Tree. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949;
London: Long, 1951.
There’s Always Another Year. Toronto:
McCLelland & Stewart, 1933; New York: Dodd, Mead, 1933.
The Waters under the Earth. New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1930; London: Butterworth, 1931.
The White Reef. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1934;
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1935; London: Cassell, 1935.
Wild Geese. Toronto: McClelland &
Stewart, 1925. Republished as The Passionate Flight. London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1925.
The Young May Moon. New York: Dodd, Mead,
1929; London: Butterworth, 1930.
Writings About Ostenso
Fraser, Nancy W. "The Development of
Realism in Canadian Literature during the 1920s." Dalhousie Review 57 (1977):
287-99.
Keith, W. J. "The Death of Caleb Gare." Studies
in Canadian Literature 3 (1978): 274-6.
Hesse, M. G. "The Endless Quest: Dreams and
Aspirations in Martha Ostenso’s Wild Geese." Journal of Popular Culture
15:3 (1981): 47-52.
Lawrence, Robert G. "The Geography of Martha
Ostenso’s Wild Geese." Journal of Canadian Fiction 16 (1975):
108-14.
Thomas, Clara. "Martha Ostenso’s Trial of
Strength." in Writers of the Prairies. Ed. Donald G. Stephens. Vancouver:
University of British Columbia Press, 1973. 39-50.
- Jan Horner
Gabrielle Roy
Writings about Roy
Babby, Ellen Reisman. The Play of Language
and Spectacle: a Structural Reading of Selected Texts by Gabrielle Roy. Toronto: ECW
Press, 1985.
Clemente, Linda M. and William A. Clemente. Gabrielle
Roy: Creation and Memory. Toronto: ECW Press, 1997.
Colloque international Gabrielle Roy: actes de
Colloque soulignant le cinquantième anniversaire de Bonheur
d’occasion, 27 au 30 septembre 1995. Edited by André Fauchon. Winnipeg: Presses
universitaires de Saint-Boniface, 1996.
Gagne, Marc. Visages de Gabrielle Roy,
l’oeuvre et l’écrivain. Montreal: Librairie Beauchemin, 1973.
Genuist, Monique. La Creation romanesque chez
Gabrielle Roy. Montreal: Cercle du livre de France, 1966.
Grace, Sherrill E. "Quest for the Peaceable
Kingdom: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence and Atwood." in Women Writers and the
City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism. Edited by Susan Merrill Squier.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. 193-209.
Grosskurth, Phyllis. Gabrielle Roy. Toronto:
Forum House, 1972.
Hesse, Marta Gundrun. Gabrielle Roy par
elle-même. Montreal: Stanké, 1985.
Hesse, Marta Gundrun. Gabrielle Roy. Boston:
Twayne Publishers, 1984.
Lewis, Paula Gilbert. "Female Spirals and Male
Cages: the Urban Sphere in the Novels of Gabrielle Roy." in Traditionalism,
Nationalism and Feminism: Women Writers of Quebec. Edited by Paula Gilbert Lewis.
Westport CT: Greenwood, 1985. 27-35.
Lewis, Paula Gilbert. "Trois générations de
femme: Le Reflet mère-fille dans quelques nouvelles de Gabrielle Roy." Voix et
images 10.3 (Spring 1985): 165-176.
Ricard, François. Gabrielle Roy. Montreal:
Fidès, 1975.
Recommended as the best work on Roy’s early
fiction.
Ricard, François. Gabrielle Roy, une vie:
biographie. Montreal: Boréal, 1996.
Ricard, François. Gabrielle Roy: a Life.
Translated by Patricia Claxton. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999.
Saint-Pierre, Annette. Gabrielle Roy:Sous le
signe du rêve. Saint-Boniface: Editions du Blé, 1975.
Socken, Paul. "Le Pays de l’amour’
in the Works of Gabrielle Roy." Revue de l’Université
d’Ottawa 46 (1976): 309-323.
Whitfield, Agnes. "Gabrielle Roy as Feminist:
Re-Reading the Critical Myths." Canadian Literature no.126 (Autumn 1990):
20-31.
- Carol Budnick
Laura Goodman Salverson
Writing By Salverson
Black Lace. Toronto: Ryerson, 1938;
London: Low, 1937.
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter.
Toronto: Ryerson, 1939; London: Faber & Faber, 1939.
The Dark Weaver. Toronto: Ryerson, 1937;
London: Low, 1937.
The Dove. Toronto: Ryerson, 1933; London:
Skeffington, 1933.
Immortal Rock: The Saga of the Kensington Stone.
Toronto: Ryerson, 1954; London: Angus & Robertson, 1955.
Lord of the Silver Dragon: A Romance of Leif the
Lucky. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1927.
The Viking Heart. Toronto: McClelland &
Stewart, 1923; New York: Doran, 1923.
Wayside Gleams. Toronto: McClelland &
Stewart, 1925.
When Sparrows Fall. Toronto: T. Allen, 1925.
Writing About Salverson
Craig, Terrence L. "The Confessional
Revisited: Laura Salverson’s Canadian Work." Studies in Canadian Literature
10:1-2 (1985): 81-93.
Gunnars, Kristjana. "Laura Goodman
Salverson’s Confessions of a Divided Self." in A Mazing Space: Writing
Canadian Women Writing. Ed. Shirley Newman and S. Kamboureli. Edmonton: Longspoon
Press, 1986. 148-53.
Hjartarson, Paul. "Laura Goodman
Salverson." Dictionary of Literary Biography. v.92: Canadian Writers
1890-1920. Ed. W. H. New. Detroit: Gale, 1990. 316-9.
Neijmann, Daisy L. "Laura Goodman Salverson,
Guttormur J. Guttormsson, and the Dual World of Second-Generation Canadian Authors." Scandinavian-Canadian
Studies 8 (1995): 19-36.
Powell, Barbara. "Laura Goodman Salverson: Her
Father’s ‘Own True Son." Canadian Literature no. 133 (1992): 78-89.
Ricou, Laurence. Vertical Man/Horizontal World.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1973. 69-71,74.
- Jan Horner
The
Third Wave
Margaret Laurence
Writing about Laurence
Buss, Helen M. Mother and Daughter Relationships
in the Manawaka Works of Margaret Laurence. Victoria: English Literary Studies,
University of Victoria, 1985.
Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme.
8.3 (Fall 1987) Issue devoted to Margaret Laurence.
Challenging Territory: the Writing of Margaret
Laurence. Edited by Christian Riegel. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1997.
Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret
Laurence. Edited by Colin Nicholson. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1990.
Crossing the River: Essays in Honour of Margaret
Laurence. Edited by Kristjana Gunnars. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1988.
Demetrakopoulos, Stephanie A. "Laurence’s
Fiction: a Revisioning of Feminine Archetypes." Canadian Literature no.93
(Summer 1982): 42-57.
Gom, Leona M. "Laurence and the Use of
Memory." Canadian Literature no.71 (1976): 48-58.Hind-Smith, Joan. Three
Voices: the Lives of Margaret Laurence, Gabrielle Roy, Frederick Philip Grove.
Toronto: Clark Irwin, 1975.
Hughes, Terrance Ryan. Gabrielle Roy et Margaret
Laurence: deux chemins, une recherche. Saint-Boniface: Editions du Blé,
1983.
Journal of Canadian Fiction. No. 27 (1980)
Special issue devoted to the works of Margaret Laurence.
Kertzer, J. M. Margaret Laurence and Her Works.
Toronto: ECW Press, 1987.
King, James. The Life of Margaret Laurence.
Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Margaret Laurence: an Appreciation. Edited
by Christl Verduyn. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1988.
Morley, Patricia. Margaret Laurence: the Long
Journey Home. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.
New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic
Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism. Edited by Greta M. K.
McCormick Coger. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
A Place to Stand on: Essays by and about
Margaret Laurence. Edited by George Woodcock. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1983.
Thomas, Clara. The Manawaka World of Margaret
Laurence. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976.
- Carol Budnick
Adele
Wiseman
Writings by Wiseman
Crackpot. Toronto: McClelland &
Stewart, 1974.
Memoirs of a Book Molesting Childhood and Other
Essays. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Old Woman at Play. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin,
1978.
The Sacrifice. Toronto: Macmillan, 1956; New
York: Viking, 1956; London: Gollancz, 1956.
Testimonial Dinner: A Play. Toronto:
Privately printed, 1978.
Other: Old Markets, New World. Sketches by
Joe Rosenthal, text by Adele Wiseman. Toronto: Macmillan, 1964.
Writings About Wiseman
Belkin, Roslyn. "The Consciousness of a
Jewish Artist: An Interview with Adele Wiseman." Journal of Canadian Fiction
31/32 (1981): 148-76.
Brandt, Di. "That Crazy Wacky Hoda in
Winnipeg: A Brief Anatomy of an Honest Attempt at a Pithy Statement about Adele
Wiseman’s Crackpot." Prairie Fire 20.2 (1999): 138-47.
Greenstein, Michael. "Adele Wiseman." in Canadian
Writers and Their Works, Fiction Series v. 6. Ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen
Quigley. Toronto: ECW Press, 1985. 23-36.
Laurence, Margaret. "Afterword [to Crackpot
by Adele Wiseman]." Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989 © 1978. 429-37.
Laurence, Margaret and Adele Wiseman. Selected
Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman. Ed. John Lennox and Ruth Panofsky.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Morley, Patricia. "Wiseman’s Fiction: Out
of Pain, Joy." Etudes Canadiennes 4 (1978): 41-50.
Mullins, Stanley. "Traditional Symbolism in
Adele Wiseman’s The Sacrifice." Culture 19 (1958): 287-97.
We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in
Honour of Adele Wiseman. Ed. Elizabeth Greene. Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant Books,
1997.
Wiseman, Adele. "A Brief Anatomy of an Honest
Attempt at Pithy Statement About the Impact of the Manitoba Environment on my Development
as an Artist." Mosaic [Manitoba Centennial issue] 3:3 (1970): 98-106.
- Jan Horner
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