A few writers of 1920s Calgary – top row from L to R: Winnifred Reeve (Onoto Watanna), Flos Jewell Williams, Elaine Catley, George Kerby, Emily Spencer Kerby; 2nd row: Alexander Calhoun, Laura Goodman Salverson, Ethel Heydon, Elizabeth Bailey Price, Georgina Thomson; bottom row: Charlotte Gordon, Mary E. Waagen, William M. Davidson, Nellie McClung.
Here’s a list of the works I mentioned during my recent Historic Calgary Week talk “Scribblers & Scrabblers: The Writers of Early Calgary.”
If you’re interested in reading the Calgary Herald account of the Bliss Carman recital in February 1924, you can find it on the Calgary Herald archives, available through the Calgary Public Library. Search “Bliss Carman” and “Feb 9, 1924.” The Herald also reported on Carman’s 1921 event on Nov 18, 1921.
Alexander Calhoun – biography by Donna Lohnes & Barbara Nicholson – Alexander Calhoun (1987)
Charlotte Gordon – RedGold (1928)
Elaine Catley – poetry chapbooks
Elizabeth Bailey Price, Ethel Heydon & the Canadian Women’s Press Club Calgary branch – Calgary: Gateway to the Woman’s West (1913)
Emily Spencer Kerby – A New Day for Women: Life and Writings of Emily Spencer Kerby, 1859-1938 (2004)
Flos Jewell Williams – New Furrows (1926)
George Kerby – The Broken Trail (1909)
Georgina Thomson – Crocus and Meadowlark Country (1963)
Hugh Dempsey – Napi, The Trickster (2018)
Laura Goodman Salverson – The Viking Heart (1923)
Laura Goodman Salverson, Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter (1939)
Mary E. Waagen, The Wayside Cross (1924)
Nellie McClung – The Stream Runs Fast (1945)
Stephen Leacock – My Discovery of the West (1937)
Winnifred Reeve – Cattle (1923)
Winnifred Reeve – biography by Birchall, Diana– Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton (2001)
Winnifred Reeve – 1918 influenza epidemic excerpt
And! Calgary through the Eyes of Writers (2018)