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The Spinster and the Prophet

Author : Brian Mckillop
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551996219
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Spinster and the Prophet written by Brian Mckillop and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the UBC Medal for Biography and shortlisted for the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize. The prolific novelist and social prophet H.G. Wells had a way with words, and usually he had his way with women. That is, until he encountered the feisty Toronto spinster Florence Deeks. In 1925 Miss Deeks launched a $500,000 lawsuit against Wells, claiming that in an act of "literary piracy," Wells had somehow come to use her manuscript history of the world in the writing of his international bestseller The Outline of History , a work still in print today. Thus began one of the most sensational and extraordinary cases in Anglo-Canadian publishing and legal history. In this riveting literary whodunit, A.B. McKillop unfolds the parallel stories of two Edwardian figures and the ambition to capture the sweep of history that possessed them both: H.G. Wells was the celebrated writer of autobiographical fiction and futuristic fantasy who, at the end of the Great War, preached the need for a global world order. Florence Deeks was a modest teacher and amateur student of history who intended to correct traditional scholarship's neglect by writing an account of civilization that stressed the contributions of women. Her manuscript was submitted to the venerable Macmillan Company in Canada but was rejected and never published. Wells's opus, completed in an astonishingly short period, was released by the same firm in North America the year following. As the mystery deepens and new evidence is revealed, it seems that the verdict of the courts in Deeks vs Wells may not be that of history. The cast of characters is as intriguing as it is wide in Canada, the United States, and England: renowned publishers and editors, eminent lawyers and judges, leading journalists and all-seeing office secretaries. Not all, it turns out, merited their reputations. Above all, the tale embraces the lives of the philandering Mr. Wells, his wife, and his mistresses, and the scarcely noted Miss Florence Deeks, her family, her life's work, and her search for justice.

The Spinster and the Prophet

Author : A. B. McKillop
Publisher : Macfarlane Walter & Ross for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
ISBN 13 : 9781551990637
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Spinster and the Prophet written by A. B. McKillop and published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. This book was released on 2000 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spinster & the Prophet

Author : A. B. McKillop
Publisher : New York : Four Walls Eight Windows
ISBN 13 : 9781568582368
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Spinster & the Prophet written by A. B. McKillop and published by New York : Four Walls Eight Windows. This book was released on 2000 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces feminist Florence Deek's efforts to fight her case of plagiarism against H.G. Wells after discovering that his publication, "The Outline of History," was similar to a transcript of hers that had been rejected by Well's publisher years earlier.

The Spinster & the Prophet

Author : A. B. McKillop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book The Spinster & the Prophet written by A. B. McKillop and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces feminist Florence Deek's efforts to fight her case of plagiarism against H.G. Wells after discovering that his publication, "The Outline of History," was similar to a transcript of hers that had been rejected by Well's publisher years earlier.

Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy

Author : Martin L. Friedland
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487525257
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy written by Martin L. Friedland and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the twentieth century. Despite his trailblazing career and intriguing personal life, Kennedy's story is largely a mystery. Weaving together a number of key events, Martin L. Friedland's lively biography discusses Kennedy's contributions as a legal and interdisciplinary scholar, his work at the University of Toronto where he founded the Faculty of Law, as well as his personal life, detailing stories about his family and important friends, such as Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Kennedy earned a reputation in some circles for being something of a scoundrel, and Friedland does not shy away from addressing Kennedy's exaggerated involvement in drafting the Irish constitution, his relationships with female students, and his quest for recognition. Throughout the biography, Friedland interjects with his own personal narratives surrounding his interactions with the Kennedy family, and how he came to acquire the private letters noted in the book. The result is a readable, accessible biography of an important figure in the history of Canadian intellectual life.

Book History

Author : Ezra Greenspan
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271021515
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Book History written by Ezra Greenspan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education, reading habits, and reader response.

The Heiress vs the Establishment

Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774850736
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Heiress vs the Establishment written by Constance Backhouse and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1922, Elizabeth Bethune Campbell, a Toronto-born socialite, unearthed what she initially thought was an unsigned copy of her mother’s will, designating her as the primary beneficiary of the estate. The discovery snowballed into a fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment, as Mrs. Campbell attempted to prove that her uncle, a prominent member of Ontario’s legal circle, had stolen funds from her mother’s estate. In 1930, she argued her case before the Law Lords of the Privy Council in London. A non-lawyer and Canadian, with no formal education or legal training, Campbell was the first woman to ever appear before them. She won. Reprinted here in its entirety, Campbell’s self-published account of her campaign, Where Angels Fear to Tread, is an eloquent first-person view of intrigue and overlapping spheres of influence in the early-twentieth-century legal system. Constance Backhouse and Nancy Backhouse provide extensive commentary and annotations to lluminate the context and pick up the narrative where Campbell’s book leaves off. Vibrantly written, this is an enthralling read. Not only a fascinating social and legal history, it’s also a very good story.

Race on Trial

Author : Barrington Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802096107
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Race on Trial written by Barrington Walker and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality in Ontario by documenting the history of black Ontarians who appeared before the criminal courts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Using capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, areas that had significant black populations because they were termini for the Underground Railroad, Barrington Walker investigates the limits of freedom for Ontario's African Canadians. Through court transcripts, depositions, jail records, Judge's Bench Books, newspapers, and government correspondence, Walker identifies trends in charges and convictions in the Black population. This exploration of the complex and often contradictory web of racial attitudes and the values of white legal elites not only exposes how blackness was articulated in Canadian law but also offers a rare glimpse of black life as experienced in Canada's past.

100 Canadian Heroines

Author : Merna Forster
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550029525
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book 100 Canadian Heroines written by Merna Forster and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring collection profiles remarkable women — heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, and more. In 100 Canadian Heroines you’ll meet remarkable women in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc. The book is full of amazing facts and fascinating trivia about intriguing figures. Discover some of the many heroines Canada can be proud of. Find out how we’re remembering them. Or not! Augmented by great quotes and photos, this inspiring collection profiles remarkable women — heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, and more. Profiles include mountaineer Phyllis Munday, activist Hide Shimizu, unionist Lea Roback, and movie mogul Mary Pickford.

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories

Author : Ed Gorman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429993316
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories written by Ed Gorman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2002-10-18 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fiction Each year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. (Jon L. Breen), England (Maxim Jakubowski), Canada (Edo Van Belkom), Australia (David Honeybone), and Germany (Thomas Woertche). Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year's compilation, "the best value-for-money of any such anthology." The A-to-Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader: Robert Barnard • Lawrence Block • Jon L. Breen • Wolfgang Burger • Lillian Stewart Carl • Margaret Coel • Max Allan Collins • Bill Crider • Jeffery Deaver • Brendan DuBois • Susanna Gregory • Joseph Hansen • Carolyn G. Hart • Lauren Henderson • Edward D. Hoch • Clark Howard • Tatjana Kruse • Paul Lascaux • Dick Lochte • Peter Lovesey • Mary Jane Maffini • Ed McBain • Val McDermid • Marcia Muller • Joyce Carol Oates • Anne Perry • Nancy Pickard • Bill Pronzini • Ruth Rendell • S. J. Rozan • Billie Rubin • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • Stephan Rykena • David B. Silva • Nancy Springer • Jac. Toes • John Vermeulen • Donald E. Westlake • Carolyn Wheat. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order

Author : Gabriel Hankins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494560
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order written by Gabriel Hankins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulates the interwar modernist response to the crisis of liberal world order after 1919.

The African Canadian Legal Odyssey

Author : Barrington Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442666811
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The African Canadian Legal Odyssey written by Barrington Walker and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. ;This collection demonstrates that the social history of Blacks in Canada has always been inextricably bound to questi52.99ons of law, and that the role of the law in shaping Black life was often ambiguous and shifted over time. Comprised of eleven engaging chapters, organized both thematically and chronologically, it includes a substantive introduction that provides a synthesis and overview of this complex history. This outstanding collection will appeal to both advanced specialists and undergraduate students and makes an important contribution to an emerging field of scholarly inquiry.

Ruin and Redemption

Author : Thomas G. W. Telfer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802093434
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ruin and Redemption written by Thomas G. W. Telfer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Labour Before the Law

Author : Judy Fudge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802037930
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Labour Before the Law written by Judy Fudge and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major judicial decisions that transformed the labour relations regime of liberal voluntarism, which prevailed in the later part of the nineteenth century, into industrial voluntarism, whose centrepiece was Mackenzie King's Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907. This period was marked by coercion and compromise, as workers organized and fought to extend their rights against the profit oriented owners of capital, while the state struggled to define a labour regime that contained industrial conflict. The authors then trace the conflicts that eventually produced the industrial pluralism that Canadians have known in more recent years. By 1948 a detailed set of legal rules and procedures had evolved and achieved a hegemonic status that no prior legal regime had even approached. This regime has become so central to our everyday thinking about labour relations that one might be forgiven for thinking that everything that came earlier was, truly, before the law. But, as Labour Before the Law demonstrates, workers who acted collectively prior to 1948 often found themselves before the law, whether appearing before a magistrate charged with causing a disturbance, facing a superior court judge to oppose an injunction, or in front of a board appointed pursuant to a statutory scheme that was investigating a labour dispute and making recommendations for its resolution. The book is simultaneously a history of law, aspects of the state, trade unions and labouring people, and their interaction within the broad and shifting terrain of political economy. The authors are attentive to regional differences and sectoral divergences, and they attempt to address the fragmentation of class experience.

The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada

Author : Ruth Panofsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098770
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada written by Ruth Panofsky and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country's foremost twentieth-century publishing houses. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada is a unique look at the contribution of publishers and editors to the formation of the Canadian literary canon. Ruth Panofsky's study begins in 1905 with the establishment of Macmillan Canada as a branch plant to the company's London office. While concentrating on the firm's original trade publishing, which had considerable cultural influence, Panofsky underscores the fundamental importance of educational titles to Macmillan's financial profile. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada also illuminates the key individuals -- including Hugh Eayrs, John Gray, and Hugh Kane -- whose personalities were as fascinating as those of the authors they published, and whose achievements helped to advance modern literature in Canada."--Publisher's website.

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 3

Author : Edward Gorman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765302359
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 3 written by Edward Gorman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers mystery, suspense, and crime stories from around the world.

Companion to Women's Historical Writing

Author : M. Spongberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349724688
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Companion to Women's Historical Writing written by M. Spongberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This A-Z reference work provides the first comprehensive reference guide to the wide range of historical writing with which women have been involved, particularly since the Renaissance. The Companion covers biographical writing, travelogue and historical fictions, broadening the concept of history to include the forms of writing with which women have historically engaged. The focus is on women writing in English internationally, but historical and historiographical traditions from beyond the English-speaking world are also examined. Brief biographies of individual writers are included.