Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Women Writers and the 'New Woman'

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Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Women Writers and the 'New Woman'
Abstract
The author examines the literature written by the generation of women who come between pioneering writers such as Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie and contemporary writers such as Alice Munro and Margaret Laurence, literature which helps us to understand the tradition of New Woman writing in Canada at the turn of the twentieth century. Among the writers examined by the author is novelist and religious philosopher Lily Dougall (1858-1923), the daughter of Montreal Witness editor John Dougall and Elizabeth Redpath. Born in Montreal, Lily Dougall was educated in New York and Scotland. She returned to Montreal and lived in the city from 1897 to 1903, when she moved to England and spent the rest of her life there. She was the author of eleven novels (one published under a male pseudonym), one volume of short stories and eight books of religious philosophy. Four of Dougall's novels have Canadian settings spanning from western British Columbia to the Eastern Townships to Prince Edward Island.
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Master's Thesis
University
University of Ottawa
Place
Ottawa, ON
Date
1996
Language
en
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MacIntyre, Christine Anne. “Turn-of-the-Century Canadian Women Writers and the ‘New Woman.’” Master’s Thesis, University of Ottawa, 1996. https://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/10372.
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