Isabella Valancy Crawford

Isabella Valancy Crawford

Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1850 - 12 February 1887) was a Canadian poet. Born in Dublin, Ireland, one of twelve or thirteen children, she and her family emigrated to Canada in 1857. Her father was a doctor, and they lived in several communities in what is now Ontario, before settling in Peterborough. After the death of her father in 1875 she began a career writing poetry, novels and short stories for a variety of Canadian newspapers and magazines. Although a prolific writer, only one book, the self-published Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems (1884), appeared in her lifetime. Crawford died aged 36 of heart disease in Toronto, Ontario.

Isabella Valancy Crawford's Books:

[Old Spookses Pass]

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