The Spinster And The Prophet
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The Spinster And The Prophet
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Author : Brian Mckillop
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2011-11-30
The Spinster And The Prophet written by Brian Mckillop and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the UBC Medal for Biography and shortlisted for the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize. The prolific novelist and social prophet H.G. Wells had a way with words, and usually he had his way with women. That is, until he encountered the feisty Toronto spinster Florence Deeks. In 1925 Miss Deeks launched a $500,000 lawsuit against Wells, claiming that in an act of "literary piracy," Wells had somehow come to use her manuscript history of the world in the writing of his international bestseller The Outline of History , a work still in print today. Thus began one of the most sensational and extraordinary cases in Anglo-Canadian publishing and legal history. In this riveting literary whodunit, A.B. McKillop unfolds the parallel stories of two Edwardian figures and the ambition to capture the sweep of history that possessed them both: H.G. Wells was the celebrated writer of autobiographical fiction and futuristic fantasy who, at the end of the Great War, preached the need for a global world order. Florence Deeks was a modest teacher and amateur student of history who intended to correct traditional scholarship's neglect by writing an account of civilization that stressed the contributions of women. Her manuscript was submitted to the venerable Macmillan Company in Canada but was rejected and never published. Wells's opus, completed in an astonishingly short period, was released by the same firm in North America the year following. As the mystery deepens and new evidence is revealed, it seems that the verdict of the courts in Deeks vs Wells may not be that of history. The cast of characters is as intriguing as it is wide in Canada, the United States, and England: renowned publishers and editors, eminent lawyers and judges, leading journalists and all-seeing office secretaries. Not all, it turns out, merited their reputations. Above all, the tale embraces the lives of the philandering Mr. Wells, his wife, and his mistresses, and the scarcely noted Miss Florence Deeks, her family, her life's work, and her search for justice.
The Spinster And The Prophet
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Author : A. B. McKillop
language : en
Publisher: Macfarlane Walter & Ross for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Release Date : 2000
The Spinster And The Prophet written by A. B. McKillop and has been published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Historiography categories.
The Spinster The Prophet
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Author : A. B. McKillop
language : en
Publisher: New York : Four Walls Eight Windows
Release Date : 2000
The Spinster The Prophet written by A. B. McKillop and has been published by New York : Four Walls Eight Windows this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Traces feminist Florence Deek's efforts to fight her case of plagiarism against H.G. Wells after discovering that his publication, "The Outline of History," was similar to a transcript of hers that had been rejected by Well's publisher years earlier.
The Spinster The Prophet
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Author : A. B. McKillop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Spinster The Prophet written by A. B. McKillop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Historiography categories.
Traces feminist Florence Deek's efforts to fight her case of plagiarism against H.G. Wells after discovering that his publication, "The Outline of History," was similar to a transcript of hers that had been rejected by Well's publisher years earlier.
Mckillop A B
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Author : John S. Partington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Mckillop A B written by John S. Partington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Plagiarism in literature categories.
A review of A.B. McKillop's study, which retells the story of the Deeks-Wells plagiarism trials of 1928-1930.
Searching For W P M Kennedy
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Author : Martin L. Friedland
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020
Searching For W P M Kennedy written by Martin L. Friedland and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Deans (Education) categories.
Born in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the twentieth century. Despite his trailblazing career and intriguing personal life, Kennedy's story is largely a mystery. Weaving together a number of key events, Martin L. Friedland's lively biography discusses Kennedy's contributions as a legal and interdisciplinary scholar, his work at the University of Toronto where he founded the Faculty of Law, as well as his personal life, detailing stories about his family and important friends, such as Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Kennedy earned a reputation in some circles for being something of a scoundrel, and Friedland does not shy away from addressing Kennedy's exaggerated involvement in drafting the Irish constitution, his relationships with female students, and his quest for recognition. Throughout the biography, Friedland interjects with his own personal narratives surrounding his interactions with the Kennedy family, and how he came to acquire the private letters noted in the book. The result is a readable, accessible biography of an important figure in the history of Canadian intellectual life.
Book History
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Author : Ezra Greenspan
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2001-09-13
Book History written by Ezra Greenspan and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education, reading habits, and reader response.
Indian Antiquary
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Indian Antiquary written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with English periodicals categories.
Maps Of Utopia
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Author : Simon J. James
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Maps Of Utopia written by Simon J. James and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in detail. Maps of Utopia tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history, politics, prophecy, and utopia, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction. This book asks what Wells thought literature was, and what he thought it was for. H. G. Wells formulated a literary aesthetics based on scientific principles, designed to improve the world both in the present and for future generations. Unlike Henry James, with whom he famously argued, Wells was not content simply to let literary art be, for its own sake: he wanted to make art instrumental in improving the lives of its readers, by bringing about the founding the World State that he predicted was man's only alternative to self-destruction. Such a project differed radically from the aims of Wells's late-Victorian and his Modernist contemporaries - with consequences for the nature both of Wells's writing and for his subsequent critical reception. Maps of Utopia begins with the late-Victorian debate about the uses of effect of reading, especially reading fiction, that followed the mass literacy of the 1870-71 Education Acts. It considers Wells's best known scientific romances, such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, and important social novels such as Tono-Bungay. It also examines less well-known texts such as The Sea Lady, Boon and Wells's journalism and political writings. This study closes with his cinematic collaboration The Shape of Things to Come, and The Outline of History, Wells's best-selling book in his own lifetime.
Mean Streets
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Author : Peter McSherry
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2002-09-01
Mean Streets written by Peter McSherry and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada’s largest city. Drunks, punks, con artists, hookers, pimps, drug addicts, drug pushers, thugs, nymphomaniacs, snakes, politicians, celebrities . . . he’s experienced them all. McSherry serves up his stories with forthrightness, humour, and the occasional dash of cynicism. In this well-written and street-smart book, the author tells the rest of us about a world we can only imagine - if we dare.