Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Early Canadiana
Anthologies
Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts
The anthology includes important writings by canonical and
non-canonical Canadian authors, published since the sixteenth century to 1920.
PR 9184.3 .S93 2009 v.1
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The Search for English-Canadian Literature: An Anthology of Critical
Articles from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Essays, prefaces, and editorials published between 1823 and 1926 in
a variety of works including the major literary periodicals of the time. Among the authors are
Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Daniel Wilson, Goldwin Smith, G. Mercer Adam,
Pelham Edgar, J.D. Robins, J.D. Logan, and Charles Mair.
PR 9184.6 .S4
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Early Voices: Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
A collection of first-person accounts of women’s experiences
of Canada, representing a multitude of Canadian regions, national origins, and social classes.
Includes writings by Anna Brownell Jameson, Catharine Parr Traill, Emily Carr as well as lesser
known names.
HQ 1453 .E33 2010
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Bibliographies
Bibliography of Canadiana Published in Great Britain, 1519–1763
The chronological arrangement of approximately 865 titles and
editions in this comprehensive bibliography of printed works published in Great Britain to 1763
(the Treaty of Paris) includes books, pamphlets, maps, broadsides, and broadsheets which concern in
some way any part of the present area of Canada. Each entry includes a bibliographic description,
a statement of format, pertinent references to other catalogs or bibliographies, notes about the
work, and locations of known copies in Canadian libraries.
Z 1365 .W34 1990
Reference
A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751–1800
A bibliography of books, handbills, pamphlets and other printed
materials published in the provinces of Canada, compiled by Marie Tremaine, a prominent Canadian
bibliographer.
Early Canadian Printing: A Supplement to Marie Tremaine’s A
Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751–1800
Corrects the original publication by Tremaine and includes new
content new with updated scholarship. An analytical bibliography of previously unrecorded
eighteenth-century Canadian imprints and a source for the study of early print culture in the
Maritimes, Quebec, and Ontario.
English Canadian Literature to 1900: A Guide to Information Sources
Provides a list of all the important primary and secondary sources
of this period including: general reference guides; literary histories and criticisms; anthologies;
major and minor authors; literature of exploration, travel and description, and selected
nineteenth-century journals.
Z 1375 .M68
Reference
Canada’s Early Women Writers: Texts in English to 1859
This bibliographical study presents 152 women-authored
English-language texts relating to Canada that were published from 1728 to 1859, including the
works of Frances Brooke, Anna Jameson, Susanna Moodie, and Catherine Parr Traill. Included are
monographas that appeared before 1860, and personal life-writings (letters, diaries, travael
journals) written before 1860 that were published later.
Z 1376 .W65 G47 1994
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The Republic of Childhood: A Critical Guide to Canadian Children’s Literature in English
A collection of critical essays, which are organized by genres and
topics in Canadian children’s fiction and nonfiction: oral tradition, Inuit and Native
legends, early Canadian children’s books, folktales, fantasy, historical fiction, the
realistic animal story, history and biography, poetry and plays, illustration and design, picture
books and picture storybooks. Each essay traces the development of the genre or subject and is
accompanied by a list of books, published up to the mid-1970s. Second edition.
PN 1009 .A1 E3 1975
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Biographies
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The Biography provides authoritative biographical
information about significant figures of Canada’s past who died between the years 1000 and
1930, or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.There are detailed articles on
Canada’s major historical figures, and short articles on minor personages who have hitherto
found no place in reference works or general histories.
Canadian Writers, 1890–1920
Studies the effects of a post-Confederation nationalism on literary
endeavor in Canada.
Canadian Writers Before 1890
French and English writers who flourished between the seventeenth
century and the 1980s are covered in the bio-critical resource. Writers came from all walks of life
including explorers, missionaries, civil servants, travel writers, lawyers and journalists.
Canada’s Early Women Writers
Includes biographical and publication information for more than 470
women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet
of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940.
History, Literary Interpretation & Criticism
The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
A complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English
and French from its beginnings, with an emphasis on literary, poetic, and dramatic works published
since the 1960s. Analyzes the emergence of multicultural and Indigenous writing, popular
literature, nature-writing, life-writing, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone
cultures throughout Canadian history.
A History of English-Canadian Literature to the Confederation: Its
Relation to the Literature of Great Britain and the United States
Provides an historical background to the beginnings of Canadian
literature and the emergence of a Canadian nationality.
PR 9184.3 .B3
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Home Ground and Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature
A collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English by
renowned experts in early Canadian literary studies, including D.M.R. Bentley, Mary Jane Edwards,
and Carole Gerson. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of
perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim of reassessing the field, unearthing neglected
texts, and proposing new approaches to canonical authors.
Emigration, Nation, Vocation: The Literature of English Emigration to
Canada, 1825–1900
Explores English and Canadian fiction and nonfiction and the manner
in which they describe early Canadian settlement. Writers examined in the book include Frederick
Marryat, John Mackie, Elisabeth Strickland, Agnes Strickland, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna
Moodie, and F.M. Delafosse.
PR 9185.6 .I45 H36 2009
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Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918
Historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple
aspects of print over some two hundred years in Canada, from the settlers who wrote diaries and
letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights.
PR 9188 .G47 2010
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Far off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of
the Contemporary Arctic
Explores how Samuel Hearne’s account of the Bloody Falls
massacre has shaped the ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North.
Digital Collections
Early Canadiana Online
A digital collection of works in English and French published from
the time of the first European settlers up to the early twentieth century. The collection includes
colonial, provincial and federal government publications, Jesuit relations texts, and an English
Canadian literature collection with over 800 works of drama, poetry and fiction, biography and
exploration written before 1900.
Early English Books Online
Full-text digitized works printed in British North America (and
other regions, including England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales), 1473–1700. Book about Canada
mainly consist of exploration narratives and missionary accounts.
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
Full-text digitized works printed in Great Britain in the eighteenth
century, encompassing an early historical stage of Canadian writing.
Toronto Public Library Digital Archive
Includes a range of digitized primary source materials, including
historical maps, books, and assorted ephemera (postcards, advertisements, flyers, and tickets).
Journals
Literary Garland
The journal was an important publishing platform for pioneer writing
in the “new world,” featuring stories of travel to an unknown land and the challenges
of frontier life. Writing as “Mrs. Moodie,” Susanna Moodie (1803–1885) is
recognized as the most distinguished contributor.
updated & expanded by: Agatha Barc, 30 November 2017
originally compiled by: Irene Dutton, Alison Girling