Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Women’s Writing
Anthologies
Women’s Writing in Canada
A comprehensive anthology containing excerpts from fiction,
filmmaking, poetry, song-writing, drama, and non-fiction, memoirs, autobiographies, comic
books, and cookbooks.
The works in the anthology were selected to illustrate disruptive feminist practices that
transformed cultural life in Canada and the tensions of colonial society.
Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry
This critical edition delivers a comprehensive collection of
the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent
Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel.
A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene,
Manuel was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a
dramatherapist and healer.
Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the
impact and devastating legacy of the residential schools, Manuel wrote about it as part of
her personal and community healing.
PR 9199.3
.M288 2019
Stacks
My Home as I Remember
An edited anthology comprising poetry, short stories, and
artwork created by First Nations, Inuit and Métis women across Canada and the United States,
including contributions from New Zealand and Mexico.
Nine Black Women: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Writers from
the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and the Caribbean
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
Stacks
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian Women’s Short
Stories
Includes stories published between the 1980s and the early
twenty-first century from Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, Mavis Gallant, Jane
Urquhart, Jacqueline Baker, Bonnie Burnard, Lynn Coady, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, and
Madeleine Thien.
PR 9197.33
.W65 P45 2006
Stacks
The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse
Include early Canadian poets, such as C.D. Shanly and R.A.
Faulkner; prominent Confederation poets (Bliss Carman, among others), and women poets
(Tekahionwake, also known as E. Pauline Johnson).
The anthology provides insight into how early Canada looked and
felt to newcomers, evolving attitudes about Canadian identity, and the early canonization of
the nation’s literature.
PR 9195.25 .O9
2013
Stacks
Sexing the Maple: A Canadian Sourcebook
A sourcebook that raises issues of nationalism and sexuality in
Canada through a rich and diverse selection of fiction, poetry, criticism, and history.
The collection considers topics as wide-ranging as First
Nations sexuality, censorship, assisted reproduction, and religion. It contains literary works
by Alice Munro, Jane Rule, Timothy Findley, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Lynn Crosbie,
Michael Turner, and many others.
HQ 18 .C2 S395
2006
Stacks
Digital Collections
Canadian Poetry Online
A collection of poetry from numerous nineteenth and
twentieth-century Canadian poets, including Isabella Valancy Crawford, Marjorie Pickthall,
Margaret Avison, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Janis Rapoport, and numerous others.
North American Women’s Drama
102 full-text plays by Canadian writers: Carol Bolt, Sharon
Pollock, Rachel Wyatt, and others.
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950
Twenty-seven diaries and other types of writing from Susanna
Moodie, Letitia MacTavish Hargrave, Catherine Parr Traill, and others.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature
A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres,
topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including the
influence of literature on the Canadian national identity, authorship, postcolonialism, short
story, drama, poetry, Indigenous literatures, women’s writing, children’s
literature, gay and lesbian literature, creative work from the Confederation period, regional
fiction, and minority writers.
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
A comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and
topics in Canadian literature: fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writing, autobiography,
literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature-writing, exploration and
travel-writing, and short fiction.
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 history of women’ writing, Indigenous
writing, the emergence of multicultural literatures, popular literature, nature-writing,
life-writing, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian
history.
reviewed & updated 20 May 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI