Isabella Valancy Crawford

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Isabella Valancy Crawford (around 1919)

Isabella Valancy Crawford (born December 25, 1850 in Dublin , Ireland , † February 12, 1887 in Toronto , Canada ) was a Canadian poet and writer.

Life

Born in Dublin in 1850, the writer came from a very large Irish family and came to Canada with her parents at the age of eight. The family lived there in various places in what is now the state of Ontario , first in Paisley on the Saugeen River. The father was a doctor, but 9 of the 12 children died. The family moved to Lakefield near Kawartha Lakes in 1864, where they stayed for 8 years before moving to Peterborough, Ontario . After her father's death in 1875, she earned her and her mother's livelihood by writing short stories and poems, which she sold to American and Canadian magazines. During her lifetime, however, she was only able to publish one book, a volume of poetry, and that only at her own expense. Crawford lived with her mother in poor conditions in Toronto for almost a decade and died at the age of 36.

Crawford is one of the first and most important poets and writers of the 19th century in Canada. There are almost no translations into German.

Works

  • Extradited . Narrative, 1886; back in Stories by canadian women . Ed. Rosemary Sullivan. Oxford University Press , Toronto 1984
    • Übers. Cornelia C. Walter: Delivered. In: Women in Canada. Stories and poems. dtv, 1993, pp. 22-37.
  • Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems . Poems, 1884
  • The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford . Poems, 1905
  • Collected poems . Poems, 1972
  • Selected stories . Stories, 1975
  • Hugh and Ion . Poem, 1977
  • Fairy Tales . 1977
  • The Halton Boys . 1979
  • Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story . Poem, 1987

Web links

literature

  • Katherine Hale: Isabella Valancy Crawford . Ryerson, 1923
  • Dorothy Farmiloe: Isabella Valancy Crawford: The Life and the Legends. Ottawa, 1983
  • Isabella Valancy Crawford . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
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personal data
SURNAME Crawford, Isabella Valancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1887
Place of death Toronto , Canada