Constance Lindsay Skinner :: writing on the frontier /
"Constance Lindsay Skinner made a living as a writer at a time when few men, and even fewer women, managed the feat. Born in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, she worked as a journalist in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Chicago, before moving to New York City in 1912, where she supported hers...
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Zusammenfassung: | "Constance Lindsay Skinner made a living as a writer at a time when few men, and even fewer women, managed the feat. Born in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, she worked as a journalist in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Chicago, before moving to New York City in 1912, where she supported herself by her pen until her death in 1939. Despite a prolific output - poetry, plays, short stories, histories, reviews, adult and children's novels - and in contrast to her reputation in the United States, she has remained virtually unknown in the country of her birth." "Reconstructing Constance Lindsay Skinner's writing life from her papers in the New York Public Library and from her publications, Jean Barman suggests several reasons for Skinner's success. As well as a capacity to respond to market forces by moving between genres, she possessed an aura of authenticity by virtue of her Canadian frontier heritage. As literary device, the frontier also gave her the freedom to tackle contentious issues, such as Aboriginal and hybrid identities, gender, and sexuality, that might otherwise have been far more difficult to get into print. Last, but very important to Skinner's writing career, was the willingness to subordinate her private self to the life of the imagination." "Barman ponders Constance Lindsay Skinner's absence from the Canadian literary canon. She mixed with such twentieth-century personalities as Jack London, Harriet Monroe, Frederick Jackson Turner, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Cornelia Meigs, Long Lance, and Margaret Mitchell, yet was unreconized in her own country. Her sex was a factor, just as it was for fellow Canadian women writers. So was her facility at multiple genres, a talent that, even as it made possible a writing life, prevented her from achieving a major breakthrough in any one of them. Perhaps the most important factor was her identification with the frontier of a nation whose centre long shaped literary matters in its own image. Constance Lindsay Skinner makes a significant contribution to Canadian and American history and to literary and gender studies."--Jacket |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (viii, 359 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-342) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781442673274 1442673273 |
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520 | 8 | |a "Barman ponders Constance Lindsay Skinner's absence from the Canadian literary canon. She mixed with such twentieth-century personalities as Jack London, Harriet Monroe, Frederick Jackson Turner, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Cornelia Meigs, Long Lance, and Margaret Mitchell, yet was unreconized in her own country. Her sex was a factor, just as it was for fellow Canadian women writers. So was her facility at multiple genres, a talent that, even as it made possible a writing life, prevented her from achieving a major breakthrough in any one of them. Perhaps the most important factor was her identification with the frontier of a nation whose centre long shaped literary matters in its own image. Constance Lindsay Skinner makes a significant contribution to Canadian and American history and to literary and gender studies."--Jacket | |
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spelling | Barman, Jean, 1939- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbMbCWCm3xvYWtfBBTCQq http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85102480 Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / Jean Barman. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002. 1 online resource (viii, 359 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-342) and index. Writing on the frontier -- A British Columbian inheritance -- Border crossing -- Beyond journalism -- Storytelling -- Engaging the frontier -- Private woman -- Old and new directions -- Return to the British Columbia frontier -- No more private woman -- Almost famous -- Reflections -- Appendix: Chronology of the life of Constance Lindsay Skinner. "Constance Lindsay Skinner made a living as a writer at a time when few men, and even fewer women, managed the feat. Born in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, she worked as a journalist in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Chicago, before moving to New York City in 1912, where she supported herself by her pen until her death in 1939. Despite a prolific output - poetry, plays, short stories, histories, reviews, adult and children's novels - and in contrast to her reputation in the United States, she has remained virtually unknown in the country of her birth." "Reconstructing Constance Lindsay Skinner's writing life from her papers in the New York Public Library and from her publications, Jean Barman suggests several reasons for Skinner's success. As well as a capacity to respond to market forces by moving between genres, she possessed an aura of authenticity by virtue of her Canadian frontier heritage. As literary device, the frontier also gave her the freedom to tackle contentious issues, such as Aboriginal and hybrid identities, gender, and sexuality, that might otherwise have been far more difficult to get into print. Last, but very important to Skinner's writing career, was the willingness to subordinate her private self to the life of the imagination." "Barman ponders Constance Lindsay Skinner's absence from the Canadian literary canon. She mixed with such twentieth-century personalities as Jack London, Harriet Monroe, Frederick Jackson Turner, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Cornelia Meigs, Long Lance, and Margaret Mitchell, yet was unreconized in her own country. Her sex was a factor, just as it was for fellow Canadian women writers. So was her facility at multiple genres, a talent that, even as it made possible a writing life, prevented her from achieving a major breakthrough in any one of them. Perhaps the most important factor was her identification with the frontier of a nation whose centre long shaped literary matters in its own image. Constance Lindsay Skinner makes a significant contribution to Canadian and American history and to literary and gender studies."--Jacket In English. Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1877-1939. Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1882-1939. Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1877-1939 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvCKrXqBdK4bmqwfWYQMP Authors, Canadian 20th century Biography. Journalists United States Biography. Canadians United States Biography. Frontier and pioneer life in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004305 Editors United States Biography. British Columbia In literature. British Columbia Biography. Pioneers British Columbia Biography. Écrivains américains 20e siècle Biographies. Éditeurs États-Unis Biographies. Journalistes États-Unis Biographies. Pionniers Colombie-Britannique Biographies. Écrivains canadiens 20e siècle Biographies. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM Women Authors. bisacsh Pioneers fast Authors, Canadian fast Canadians fast Editors fast Frontier and pioneer life in literature fast Journalists fast Literature fast British Columbia fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRDxqwPWxct46dwcdJ9c United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. Biographies fast has work: Constance Lindsay Skinner (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFYyDMC6jv48cmyqJFbwFq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Barman, Jean, 1939- Constance Lindsay Skinner. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2002 9780802036780 (DLC) 2003467296 (OCoLC)49603604 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=468017 Volltext |
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title_full | Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / Jean Barman. |
title_fullStr | Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / Jean Barman. |
title_full_unstemmed | Constance Lindsay Skinner : writing on the frontier / Jean Barman. |
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topic | Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1877-1939. Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1882-1939. Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1877-1939 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvCKrXqBdK4bmqwfWYQMP Authors, Canadian 20th century Biography. Journalists United States Biography. Canadians United States Biography. Frontier and pioneer life in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004305 Editors United States Biography. Pioneers British Columbia Biography. Écrivains américains 20e siècle Biographies. Éditeurs États-Unis Biographies. Journalistes États-Unis Biographies. Pionniers Colombie-Britannique Biographies. Écrivains canadiens 20e siècle Biographies. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM Women Authors. bisacsh Pioneers fast Authors, Canadian fast Canadians fast Editors fast Frontier and pioneer life in literature fast Journalists fast Literature fast |
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