 | Silenced Sextet: Six Nineteenth-Century Canadian Women Novelists Subjects: Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women authors Canadian (English) -- Biography; Canadian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; The Canadian publishing industry burgeoned during the late nineteenth century and Canadian poets and novelists began to gain international recognition. Twentieth-century literary scholars, however, have tended to focus on just a few of the writers of this vital expansive period. Many other writers with strong critical reputations and/or popular followings -- a good proportion of whom were women -- have been virtually lost to us. |
