LEADER 04976nam 2200817 450 001 9910813333803321 005 20230912154408.0 010 $a1-282-02293-8 010 $a9786612022937 010 $a1-4426-7327-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442673274 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003962 035 $a(OCoLC)666911717 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218762 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000292499 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11261088 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292499 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274844 035 $a(PQKB)11333021 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600341 035 $a(DE-B1597)464345 035 $a(OCoLC)1013950342 035 $a(OCoLC)944178304 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442673274 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671373 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257088 035 $a(OCoLC)958562575 035 $a(OCoLC)1357149465 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104607 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/xhk8jk 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418319 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671373 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254857 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003962 100 $a20160926h20022002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConstance Lindsay Skinner $ewriting on the frontier /$fJean Barman 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2002. 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (388 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-3678-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWriting 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. 330 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 330 1 $a"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." 606 $aAuthors, Canadian$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aJournalists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCanadians$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life in literature 606 $aEditors$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aBritish Columbia$xIn literature 607 $aBritish Columbia$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, Canadian 615 0$aJournalists 615 0$aCanadians 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life in literature. 615 0$aEditors 676 $a818.5209 700 $aBarman$b Jean$f1939-$01610957 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813333803321 996 $aConstance Lindsay Skinner$93938929 997 $aUNINA