R.I.P Irene Howard (1922 – 2023)

“Irene Howard (left) wrote an important bio of  the first woman to be elected to Vancouver City Council. But she is probably best known for the memoir about her immigrant mining family.FULL STORY

 

 

Women’s voices, 1914 – 1960

November 26th, 2020

SFU prof, Carole Gerson has co-authored with Peggy Lynn Kelly, Hearing More Voices: English-Canadian Women in Print and on the Air, 1914 – 1960 (Tecumseh $24), which analyzes the working lives and professional output of female Canadian broadcasters, authors of radio plays, novelists, humourists, historians, journalists and poets who produced much of the middlebrow and modernist culture of the period. The book shows how many of these female writers survived under challenging economic conditions and adapted to changing cultural times.

978-1-896133-71-3

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