Isabella Valancy Crawford

Isabella Valancy Crawford ( born December 25, 1850 in Dublin, Ireland, † February 12, 1887 in Toronto, Canada) was a Canadian poet and writer.

Life

The Dublin-born writer in 1850 came from a very Irish family with many children already and came up with eight years with her parents to Canada. There the family lived in several places of the current state of Ontario, first in Paisley on the Saugeen River. The father was a doctor, but died of the 12 children 9 The remaining family moved in 1864 from Lakefield at the Kawartha Lakes, where she stayed for 8 years before it was established in Peterborough (Ontario). After his father's death in 1875, she earned her living and her mother by writing short stories and poems, which she sold to American and Canadian magazines. During her lifetime she could, however, only a single book, a volume of poetry, and also publish the only at their own expense. Crawford lived with her mother for almost a decade in Toronto in poverty and died at age 36 from heart disease.

Works

Isabella Valancy Crawford is one of the first and most important poets and writers of the 19th century in Canada. There are virtually no translations into German.

• Extradited, narration 1886 (Eng. delivered, in: Women in Canada stories and poems, 1993. )
• Old Spookses ' Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems, Poems 1884
• The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford, poems, 1905
• Collected Poems, Poems 1972
• Selected Stories, stories 1975
• Hugh and Ion, 1977 poem
• Fairy Tales, 1977
• The Halton Boys, 1979
• Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story, Poem 1987