The Thomas Chandler Haliburton SymposiumFrank Tierney University of Ottawa Press, 1. jaan 1985 - 172 pages Thomas Chandler Haliburton was perhaps the only Canadian writer whose name was a household word in nineteenth-century Canada. The ten papers in this volume reappraise the historical, geographical, political and literary contexts within which Haliburton lived and worked. His letters, his historical books, the Club papers and Sam Slick sketches are all included in these valuable and lively criticisms. |
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... seem to have deterred certain people in the past . Previous mistakes can confuse the scene for later investigators . In 1939 measured drawings were made of the house by the Provincial Govern- ment , which had just become the owner . A ...
... seem to have deterred certain people in the past . Previous mistakes can confuse the scene for later investigators . In 1939 measured drawings were made of the house by the Provincial Govern- ment , which had just become the owner . A ...
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... seem particularly vulnerable . Two quotations may be used as be used as examples of interpretive varia- tion . The first appeared in The Evening Mail of March 1932 : The main door in Haliburton's day did not face the gate but looked in ...
... seem particularly vulnerable . Two quotations may be used as be used as examples of interpretive varia- tion . The first appeared in The Evening Mail of March 1932 : The main door in Haliburton's day did not face the gate but looked in ...
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... seem that the new house was completed between 1833 and 1836 at the latest , but most probably was inhabited by late 1835 , if we can trust two newspaper advertise- ments . The advertisements run as follows : 4 " To let " residence of ...
... seem that the new house was completed between 1833 and 1836 at the latest , but most probably was inhabited by late 1835 , if we can trust two newspaper advertise- ments . The advertisements run as follows : 4 " To let " residence of ...
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... seems that Willson was not much loved , and the opportunity was not lost on the neighbours to ransack his house . In four years he employed fifty - three servants , some lasting in his employment for as little as six hours . For ...
... seems that Willson was not much loved , and the opportunity was not lost on the neighbours to ransack his house . In four years he employed fifty - three servants , some lasting in his employment for as little as six hours . For ...
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... seems unlikely for a number of reasons , most impor- tant of all being his death in Ottawa just a few years after his purchase of Clifton . Clifton was left to his young widow who needed the fireplace surrounds . If someone did remove ...
... seems unlikely for a number of reasons , most impor- tant of all being his death in Ottawa just a few years after his purchase of Clifton . Clifton was left to his young widow who needed the fireplace surrounds . If someone did remove ...
Contents
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Egerton Ryerson | 37 |
A Background Paper | 53 |
Haliburtons Literary Apprenticeship | 65 |
The Colonial Author and His Milieu | 83 |
The First Clockmakers | 93 |
Haliburton as a Historian | 103 |
Sam Slick and American Popular Humour | 123 |
Haliburtons International Yankee | 135 |
The Achievement of Thomas Chandler Haliburton An Assessment Panel | 151 |
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