Great Dames -

Toronto, ON, Canada: Univ of Toronto Press, 1997. Modest edge wear and cover creases. Light bump at the top spine end. . Trade Paperback. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall, 340 Pages.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Bright, clean, unmarked pages, firmly bound. Dust jacket shows some wear to edged; corners are bumped. 10 pages have tiny 1/2" tears/crease at bottom. 340 pages, including b&w photographs. Contents: 'Write down everything just as you know it' -- Victims of the times, heroes of their lives -- Driving towards death -- Dear Ruth: this is the story of Maggie Wilson, Ojibwa ethnologist -- Casting light on women in the shadow of the law -- From Bovarysme to Automatisme (and beyond) -- The wrong time and the wrong place -- Settling the score with myths of settlement -- Anna of Intola: a Finnish-Canadian woman with Sisu -- Soaring to new heights -- Marion Hilliard -- 'By title and by virtue' -- Elizabeth Allin -- 'Out of a cardboard box beside our bed like a baby' -- Evelyn Garbary. BAY 33.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Like new, but with slight wear to cover. 340 pages. "An intriguing collection of short biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about Canadian women of the twentieth century from all walks of life" (back cover). BAY 35.

University of Toronto Press. Used - Good.

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1997. Paperback. 0802072151 . Trade Paperback in very good+ condition. Tightly bound, unmarked and bright. Light scuffing and edgewear with a small crease to the front bottom corner. "Great Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the possibility of challenging, even subverting, the traditional view of life writing as an endeavour to summarize and fix in time, the public careers of public men." ; 0.96 x 8.54 x 6.6 Inches; 340 pages .

University of Toronto Press, 1997. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 304 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. This book elucidates the lives and achievements of several Canadian women from different walks of life.