Women Authors

“With all its honesty, Journal is a moving account of a brief yet remarkable life.” — Literary Review of Canada

“Gripping and beautifully written. A work of art imbued with desire, loneliness, sadness, s ...

This narrative in verse builds on known facts to imagine the life of John Rudolphus Booth, who arrived in roughhouse Bytown in the early 1850s with a wife, a child, and carpenter’s tools bought on credit. I ...