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poetry. She puts her myth in an Indian form, which reminds us of the resemblance between white and Indian legendary heroes in the New World, between Paul Bunyan and Davy Crockett on the one hand and Glooscap on the other. The white myths are not necessarily imitated from the Indian ones, but they may have sprung from an unconscious feeling that the primitive myth expressed the imaginative impact of the country as more artificial literature could never do."
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account of philosophical, social and ideological confrontations." "In 'Malcolm's Katie' Crawford adapted to the setting of pioneer Canada the domestic idyll as she learned it from Tennyson. Striking and new, however, is Crawford's location of Max and Katie's conventional love story within a context of Native legends — Indian Summer and the battle of the North and South Winds."
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and concern for humanity's future committed her, far ahead of her time and milieu, to write passionate pleas for brotherhood, pacifism, and the preservation of a green world. Her deeply felt belief in a just society wherein men and women would have equal status in a world free from war, class hatred,
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Frye believed, and thought Crawford's "poetic sense" told her "that the most obvious development in the romantic landscape is toward the mythological"; and he saw Crawford's attempt at an indigenous Canadian myth as the intellectual equivalent of the simultaneous pioneer exploration and settlement:
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the "framework' of Isabella Crawford is that of an intelligent and industrious female songbird of the kind who filled so many anthologies in the last century. Yet the "South Wind" passage from Malcolm's Katie is only the most famous example of the most remarkable mythopoeic imagination in Canadian
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Much of Isabella Crawford's early life is unknown. By her own account she was born in Dublin, Ireland, the sixth daughter of Dr. Stephen Dennis Crawford and Sydney Scott; but "No record has been found of that marriage or of the birthdates and birthplaces of at least six children, of whom Isabella
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influence but point out that there is much more to it: "While appearing on the surface melodramatic and stereotyped, Crawford's love story is compelling and powerful; what seems at first a conventional conflict between rival suitors for the hand of the heroine becomes a serious, even profound,
327:, such as twins and doubles, mysterious childhood disappearances, stony-hearted fathers, sacrificial daughters, wills and lost inheritances, recognition scenes, and, to quote one of her titles, 'A kingly restitution'." As a whole, though, it "was romantic-Gothic 'formula fiction.'" 299:. She had died in poverty and for years her body lay in an unmarked grave. A fundraising campaign was begun in 1899, and on 2 November 1900, a six-foot Celtic Cross was raised above her grave, inscribed: "Isabella Valancy Crawford / Poet / By the Gift of God." 347:
were edited (Toronto 1905) by J.W. Garvin, with an introduction by Ethelwyn Wetherald," a popular Canadian poet. Wetherald called Crawford "purely a genius, not a craftswoman, and a genius who has patience enough to be an artist." In his 1916 anthology,
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on Christmas Eve, 1873. "When Dr. Crawford died, on 3 July 1875, the three women" – Isabella, her mother, and her sister Emma, all who were left in the household – "became dependent on Isabella's literary earnings." After Emma died of
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This myth telling (however accurate it was as a portrayal of First Nations beliefs) is what many of its supporters see as giving the poem its power. For instance, writing about "Malcolm's Katie, critic
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in 1884. It was privately printed and sold poorly. Crawford paid for the printing of 1,000 copies, and presumably sent out many review copies; "there were notices in such London journals as the
1661: 181:. Strickland invited the Crawfords to live at his home, out of charity, and because Lakefield did not have a doctor. There the family became acquainted with Strickland's sisters, writers 1656: 551:(1965) called "Malcolm's Katie" "a preposterously romantic love story on a Tennysonian model in which a wildly creaking plot finally delivers true love safe and triumphant." 1671: 135:"Crawford is increasingly being viewed as Canada's first major poet." She is the author of "Malcolm's Katie," a poem that has achieved "a central place in the 886: 1631: 1666: 1580: 1574:– Biography and 6 poems (The Camp of Souls, The Canoe, The Dark Stag, The Lily Bed, Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story, Old Spookses' Pass, Said the West Wind) 1029: 189:. Isabella Crawford reportedly began writing at that time. She was also thought to be a close companion of Mrs. Traill's daughter, Katharine (Katie). 1636: 637: 487:
Crawford presents a new myth of great significance to Canadian literature: the Canadian frontier as creating 'the conditions for a new Eden,' not a
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But it is mainly Crawford's "long narrative poems have received particular attention." "Old Spookses' Pass" is a dialect poem, set in the
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Isabella Valancy Crawford plaque in Paisley, Ontario. Photo by Alan L. Brown, June 2005. Photo used with permission from the website
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Not just interpretations on the poem's meaning, but evaluations of its worth, have varied widely. Its detractors have included poet
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Others have similarly seen their concerns reflected in the poem. "Malcolm's Katie has been given a nationalistic reading by
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to teach their own children not to drink, as the starting-point for a highly incantatory and hypnotic poem that ends in
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of the day." Her magazine writing "displays a skilful and energetic use of literary conventions made popular by
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The family was in Canada by 1857; in that year, Dr. Crawford applied for a licence to practise medicine in
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Isabella Valancy Crawford was the last surviving daughter of Dr. Stephen Crawford. She was born in
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Crawford was a prolific writer. "For the most part Crawford's prose followed the fashion of the
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Many of those lauding the poem have seen their own interests reflected in it. For instance,
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and poet. She was one of the first Canadians to make a living as a freelance writer.
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in 1977, discovered the manuscript of an uncompleted narrative poem in the Crawford
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possession and death; and "Gisli the Chieftain" fuses mythic elements, such as the
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included generous selections from her book in his groundbreaking 1889 anthology,
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Crawford died on 12 February 1887 in Toronto. She was buried in Peterborough's
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Len Early & Michel Peterman, ed. London, ON: Canadian Poetry Press, 2006.
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A small garden park in downtown Toronto, at Front and John Streets (near the
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series. All of this helped Crawford's poetry become more widely known.
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to Toronto, which was the centre of the publishing world in Canada."
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Livesay gave a reading that made the poem sound like a manifesto of
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It is her poetry that has endured. Just two years after her death,
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Except where noted, bibliographical information from Open Library.
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a manner, on the nascent social evils of the 'infant city.'"
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warriors), and also a collection of love songs in different
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A "serious critical assessment began in the mid-1940s with
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Crawford wrote a wide variety of poems, ranging from the
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and racial prejudice dominates all her finest poetry."
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Collected Short Stories of Isabella Valancy Crawford.
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Entrance to Isabella Valancy Crawford Park, Toronto.
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Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems
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Crawford, Isabella Valancy National Historic Person
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The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination
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The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination
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The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination
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Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems
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Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems
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Dublin
Canada West
Paisley
Canada West
Lakefield
Susanna Moodie
Catherine Parr Traill
Peterborough
The Toronto Mail
tuberculosis
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Globe
Telegram
Fireside Monthly

Spectator
Graphic
Leisure Hour
Saturday Review
Little Lake Cemetery
Otonabee River

Ontario Plaques
Dickens
W.D. Lighthall

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