The Dusty Bookcase

The Black Creek Stopping-House and Other Stories Nellie L.

Our Little Life: A Novel of To-Day J.G.

Lot's Wife [La Femme de Loth] Monique Bosco [trans John Glassco] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975 151 pages De temps à autre, un mot, une phrase, entendus malgré moi, me frappent comme un autre soufflet immérité. – La Femme de Loth, Monique Bosco, 1970…

Day fourteen of Women in Translation Month and I've yet to participate.

Tuesdays begin like any other day.

Shackles Madge Macbeth New York: Waterson, 1927 282 pages The first three pages of Shackles take the form of a letter written by the author to her friend Aimée.

The Living Idol Robert Switzer New York: Signet, 1957 128 pages Robert Switzer's second book, The Living Idol is a novelization of a Hollywood film.

Margaret Laurence was born one hundred years ago today.

The Tent of the Wicked Robert Switzer New York: Signet, 1956 128 pages We begin in a despot's bedroom.

Patriotic and personal verse for the day by William Mackay MacKeracher (1871-1913), the very same man who wrote that old favourite 'My Canadian Girl.'

The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance May Agnes Fleming Chicago: Donahue, n.d. 250 pages Not to suggest that he didn't deserve it, but has there ever been a more tortured soul in all of Canadian literature than Sir Jasper Kingswood?

In Montreal, a city blessed with so very many works of public art, the Monument aux Patriotes stands as one of the most poignant.

Mist of Morning Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1919 407 pages "We're piling up fireworks all around — just suppose that some one, with a screw loose, should take a fancy to see them go off?"

Sunburst Phyllis Gotlieb New York: Fawcett, 1964 160 pages Sorrel Park is no place to live, but this wasn't always so.

Antoinette de Mirecourt or, Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing Rosanna Leprohon Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973 200 pages Antoinette De Mirecourt, or, Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing Rosanna Leprohon Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1989 334…

As a Watered Garden Marian Keith [Mary Esther Miller MacGregor] Toronto; McClelland & Stewart, 1946 297 pages My Marian Keith collection began with The Bells of St Stephens, purchased seventeen years ago in London, Ontario, not long after our move to near…

A follow-up to last week's review of I Was Going Anyway by Robert Switzer.

I Was Going Anyway Robert Switzer New York: Macmillan, 1961 121 pages Robert Switzer flew under my radar for decades, it was only last month that I first read his name.

Wedded for a Week; or, The Unseen Bridegroom May Agnes Fleming London: Milner, [n.d.] 248 pages We begin on a dark and stormy November night at a ball hosted by Mrs Walraven, matriarch of the New York Walravens, at her Fifth Avenue mansion.

The Torrent [Le torrent] Anne Hébert [trans Gwendolyn Moore] Montreal: Harvest House, 1973 141 pages Anne Hébert completed Le torrent in 1945, but it didn't reach bookstores until five years later.

Last year, I participated in CrowdsourceHerBook: Women's book history and participatory science – an experiment.

Portrait in Fear [Mystery of Cedar Valley] Vera Henry New York: Caravelle, 1964 160 pages I expected little of Portrait in Fear, the lone novel from an author whose bibliography consists almost entirely of confessionals published in post-war love pulps.

'Four To Go' Kay Grant [Hilda Kay Grant] The Star Weekly (24 - 31 March 1973) I once thought that Hilda Kay Grant's bibliography could be divided neatly into two unequal parts.

The Window with the Sleeping Nude Robert Leslie Bellem Toronto: Harlequin, 1950 A mystery novel, The Window with the Sleeping Nude begins with store detective Barney Cunard – "two hundred pounds of hangover" – arriving at work at Westervelt Department Sto…

The Invisible Gate Constance Beresford-Howe New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949 241 pages I met Constance Beresford-Howe at the 1991 opening of a Toronto bookstore.

It's been a remarkably cold winter, made more so by news Friday that Catherine O'Hara had died.