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The Council of Keewatin was an unelected legislative body and territorial government for the District of Keewatin in Canada. Lieutenant Governor Alexander Morris convinced the government that the new territorial government of the North West Territories would be unable to effectively administer land to the north and east of Manitoba. The preface reads, ôThe question of the relations of the Dominion of Canada to the Indians of the North-West, is...

Robert Smith Surtees was a 19th century English editor, novelist and sporting writer. Surtees began writing for the New Sporting Magazine in 1831, contributing the comic papers, which appeared as Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities. Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public. Surtees wrote several Jorrocks novels. The Table of Ocntents includes, THE SWELL AND THE SURREY...

George Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. He came from a Roman Catholic landed family and originally wanted to be a painter studying in Paris in the 1870Zs. As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of mile Zola. Because of his willingness to tackle such issues as ...

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. Before becoming a playwright he wrote music and literary criticism. Shaw used his writing to attack social problems such as education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. Shaw was particularly conscious of the exploitation of the working class. How He Lied to Her Husband is a one act play set in an English drawing room. The characters are Henry, a beautiful young man...

Saint Stanislaus Kostka was a 16th century Polish novice in the Society of Jesus. He entered the Society of Jesus in Rome on his 17th birthday and was said to foretell his own death a few days before he died. Stanislaus had to travel from Vienna to Rome, which was a long and dangerous journey. He made the trip alone depending on the charity of others. During his short time as a novice his religious fervor and piety were amazing. The Holy See r...

Samuel Butler (1835 ù 1902) was a Victorian novelist who wrote in many genres. The Way of All Flesh and Erehhon are his most famous novels. Besides fiction Butler also wrote on evolution, Christian orthodoxy, Italian art, literary history and translated the Iliad and The Odyssey. Erewhon is a utopian satire of Victorian England published in 1872. The title is the name of a fictional country and it is also the word nowhere spelled backwards. Th...

Reality can sometimes produce a story with more adventure and horrid than fiction. The setting for this tale is Donner Lake in the Sierras. It is a true story of a group of people starving while trying to reach the Pacific coast. C F McGlashan has complied the letters and interviews of those who survived this tragic event. The group consisted of the families of George Donner, his brother Jacob, and James F. Reed of Springfield, Illinois, plus ...

Alexander Lange Kielland was a 19th century Norwegian author. Even though born into a wealthy family Kielland always supported the less fortunate. He was known for treating the workers well in the factory he owned. Among his most famous works are the novels Garman & Worse (1880), Skipper Worse (1882), and Poison (Gift, 1883). Garman and Worse tells the story of a rich family from Stavanger, Norway. The family makes foolish decisions and has bo...

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Edward Bellamy (1850Ú1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000. His books include Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880), Miss Ludington's Sister (1884), The Duke of Stockbridge (1900), and the utopian novels Looking Backward: 2000Ú1887 (1888), and its sequel, Equality (1897). In "Looking Backward" an upper class man from 1887 awakens in 2000 after being in a hypnotic trance ...

J M Synge (1871 ù 1909) was an Irish poet and playwright. He participated in the founding of the Abbey Theatre. Deirdre of the Sorrows is a three-act play, first performed at the Abbey Theatre by the Irish National Theatre Society in 1910. The play is based on Irish myth concerning Deirdre and Conchobar. The work was unfinished at the author's death in 1909. William Butler Yeats and Synge's widow, Molly Allgood completed the work. The story be...

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a British writer. He went to work for his father but was unhappy working for his father and earning very little money. The theme of parental miserliness occurs in his works. At 21 he went to London to clerk for a solicitor. He then began working for a magazine called Women. When he noticed the poor material being submitted he began writing a serial for the periodical. First published in 1910. Edwin Clayhanger is ...

Elizabeth von Armin (1866 ù 1941) was born in Australia and grew up in England. After marrying a German count and moving to his estate she began writing childrenZs books. From the first paragraph Elizabeth Von Amim has her readers embracing the two little girls starting out on the adventure of their lives. ôTheir names were really Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas, but they decided, as they sat huddled together in a corner of the second-class deck ...

George Lewis Becke (1855 ù1913) was an Australian short-story writer and novelist. As a child Becke twice ran away and when he turned 16 he was a stowaway on a ship bound for Samoa. At age 18 Becke met William "Bully" Hayes who later became a central character in Becke's writings. When shipwrecked in 1874 Becke was arrested as a pirate and was later acquitted. A collection of his stories from the Bulletin was published in By Reef and Palm in E...

G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala (1868) and Those Other Animals (1891), short stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jack, a weekly boys magazine. The preface sets the scene as follows. ôThe four openin...

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Frank Baum was a famous author of childrenZs books. He is best noted for his book The Wizard of Oz. Baum used several pen names when writing different series. He used the pen name Edith van Dyke when writing books for adolescent girls. Aunt JaneZs Nieces is a series of ten books written for teen-age girls. Jane Merrick is a childless woman with three nieces. She asks the girls to visit her so she can decide how to distribute her inheritance wh...

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