Katherine Hale - Isabella Valancy Crawford

ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD by KATHERINE HALE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
OLD SPOOKSES’ PASS, MALCOLM’S KATIE AND OTHER POEMS
	By Isabella Valancy Crawford. Toronto: James Bain & Son, 1884. Foolscap 8vo., blue-green paper boards, with title as above repeated in full on face, but with no lettering on back; pp. i-iv + 224, all edges trimmed; publishers’ advertisement on under cover; slip of errata at p. I. According to Mr. Donald Bain, the “Son” of the firm of James Bain & Son, 1,000 copies of this book were printed for the author, but the book practically fell dead from the press, not more, perhaps than fifty copies being actually sold. Miss Crawford finally took back the undisposed of copies, and in 1886 re-issued them in grey or blue paper boards, with a substituted title-page (repeated in full as before, on the face, but again with no lettering on the back), following the typography of the original title-page closely, but omitting the quotation marks which there accompanied the titles, “Old Spookses’ Pass” and “Malcolm’s Katie,” and the publishers’ imprint (including the date), but adding after the author’s name: Author of “A Little Bacchante; or Some Black Sheep,” and also retaining the copyright notice on the verso. In addition, the publishers’ advertisement on the under side of the cover of the first issue was replaced by press notices of the volume from various Canadian and English newspapers and other publications, the latest of them being dated April 3, 1886. The slip of errata was also omitted, although the single error mentioned therein remained uncorrected. Some copies of this second issue have the original title-page pasted down, in addition to [page 113] carrying the substituted title-page, and therefore may be considered a separate issue; but whether they were the first put out by Miss Crawford in her capacity as vendor of her own book, or whether they were the last she put out, is an open question. In 1898, a considerable store of unsold copies of what may be called the “author’s edition” (although how many is not definitely know at this late date) was found and, after being rebound in light blue cloth boards, with lettering and floral design on the face in silver, and lettering on the back, also in silver, put on the market by William Briggs. There were thus, as will have been seen, three, if not four, different issues of this little volume, which, rare enough in any issue, is in its first issue one of the rarest and most desirable of Canadian books of verse. A small number (eight or ten) of this issue, it may be added, were bound de luxe in full leather.
THE MAIL, TORONTO
	“The Vesper Star,” December 24, 1873; “Esther,” March 7, 1874; “The Wishing Star,” March 25, 1874; “Caesar’s Wife,” April 27, 1874; “A Battle,” June 26, 1874; “Canada to England,” July 28, 1874; “The Roman Rose-Seller,” August 19, 1874; “The Wooing of Gheezis: an Indian Idyll,” September 18, 1874; “Moloch,” November 6, 1874; “Flora,” February 26, 1875; “An Interregunum,” May3, 1875. The above poems were written and contributed while Miss Crawford lived in Peterboro’, Ontario.
THE FAVORITE
	“The Inspiration of Song,” “Love Amongst the Roses.” No record of “The Favorite” can be found at either the Reference or the Parliamentary Library, Toronto: but I have definite information that those poems appeared in a publication of that name. [page 114]
NATIONAL
	“I’ll Laugh to See the Year In,” “Le Blanchisseuse,” “A Harvest Song,” “Where, Love, Art Hid?” The “National was a weekly journal which began publication in Toronto in 1872, and discontinued in a few years. Only two issues of this journal can be found at the public libraries, and they do not contain any of Miss Crawford’s poems. “Where, Love, Art Hid?” was written to Toronto, July, 1876.
THE EVENING TELEGRAM, TORONTO
	“Erin to her Grandson: Ned Hanlan,” June 25, 1879; “War,” August 4, 1879; “To the Princess Louise,” September 3, 1979; “A Song of the Sea,” September 3, 1879; “Joy’s City,” September 12, 1879; “Lines: on the Picture of Semiramis Receiving News of a Revolt in Babylon,” October 6, 1879; “How Deacon Fry Bought a Duchess,” October 22, 1879; “Wealth,” November 26, 1879; “Beside the Burgomeister’s Well,” December 12, 1879; “The King is Dead! Long Live the King,” December 31, 1879; “Farmer Downs Changes his Opinion on Nature,” January 16, 1880; “Beside the Sea,” February 4, 1880: “A Creed,” February 21, 1880; “Love me, Love my Dog,” March 25, 1880; “The West Wind,” May 14, 1880; “Sylvius to Chloris,” May 27, 1880; “June,” June 3, 1880; “True and False,” June 19, 1880; “The Deacon and his Daughter,” July 7, 1880; “The Camp of Souls,” August 9, 1880; “Said to Daisy,” August 19, 1880; “The City Tree,” September 4, 1880; “Old Spence,” September 29, 1880; “The Billet-Doux,” October 15, 1880; “The Pilgrims,” November 9, 1880; “The Sailor and his Bride,” December 9, 1880; “1880,” January 19, 1881, “A Hungry Day,” February 15, 1881; “Erin’s Warning,” March 7, 1881; “March,” March 19, 1881; “The Rowan Tree,” April 27, 1881; “A Fragment,” June 4, 1881; “Curtius,” July 16, 1881; “A Wooing,” August 20, 1881; “The White Bull,” October 3, 1881; “The Deacon’s Fate,” October [page 115] 13, 1881;”Youth,” January 7, 1882; “Life,” February 11, 1882; “Two Songs,” March 13, 1882; “O Eyes that See Not,” May 11, 1882; “Some of Farmer Stebbins Opinions,” June 2, 1882; “Verses, entitled “Late Loved, Well Loved,” in “Old Spookses’ Pass, etc.” July 21, 1882; “Good-Bye’s the Word—Good-Bye,” September 8, 1882; “At the Opera”—A Fragment,” October 27, 1882; “Thanksgiving Day,” November 8, 1882; “Mavoureen,” December 2m 1882; “He Arose and Went Into Another Land,” February 9, 1883; “The Earth Waxeth Old,” April 16, 1883; “The Blue Forget-Me-Not,” . . . Song Second And Song First. (In “Collected Poems,” the Second Song is entitled “A Perfect Strain”), June 1, 1883; “A Lover’s Quarrel,” June 18, 1883; “Love, Stay for Me,” July 30, 1883; “September in Toronto,” September 15, 1883; “The Butterfly.” (In “Collected Poems” entitled “The Mother’s Soul”) November 14, 1883; “The Dark Stag,” November 28, 1883; “My Irish Love,” December 5m 1883; “Roses in Madrid,” January 19, 1884; “The Canoe,” Written December 8, 1883, (In “Collected Poems” entitled “Said the Canoe”) February 26, 1884; “Toronto, June, 1884,” June 25, 1884; “His Clay,” October 22, 1884; “The Lily Bed,” written January 4, 1884, October 30, 1884; “The King’s Kiss,” November 11, 1884; “The Christmas Baby,” December 22, 1884; “An Apology for the Spring Poet,” March 18, 1885; “To Gladstone”; “Imitations is the Sincerest Form of Flattery,” May 4, 1885; “The Red Cross Corps,” April 20, 1885; “The Dauntless Daughter of the Dane,” May 22, 1885; “The Rose of a Nation’s Thanks,” (Reprinted by request in The Evening Telegram, February5, 1887,) June 11, 1885; “Songs for the Soldiers,” July 17, 1885; “The Gallant Lads in Green,” July 22, 1885: “Peace,” [page 116] August 8, 1885; “Yule,” December 23, 1885; “The Rolling Pin,” (In “Collected Poems” entitled “Fairy Toil”), May 29, 1886.
THE TORONTO GLOBE
	“Phyllis,” October 10, 1885; “All Men are Born Free and Equal,” November 18, 1885; “Co’ Boss,” November 30, 1885; “Hats Hout”—an error. (Correct title, “Hast Thou,” given the next day, when the poem was reprinted), January 1, 1886; “The Sabot Maker,” April 14, 1886; “The Harp of Spring,” May 1, 1886; “The Pessimist,” May 29, 1886; “Extradited” (a short story), September 4, 1886.
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD
	Edited by J.W. Garvin, B.A., with introduction by Ethelwyn Wetherald. Toronto: William Briggs, 1905. Crown 8vo. Cloth (also half calf), pp. 309, with portrait and facsimile poem.
THE GLOBE
	Toronto, January 6, 1886, has this advertisement: “A new novel, written for The Globe, entitled ‘The Little Bacchante; or Some Black Sheep,’ by Isabella Valancy Crawford, author of ‘Old Spookses’ Pass,’ ‘Winona,’ ‘Hate,’ ‘Wrecked,’ etc., etc., will shortly be commenced in these columns, and will be continued from day to day until completed.” The leading features of the novel are then strongly praised. The Varsity of January 23, 1886, refers to this novel in these words: “The novel of Isabella Valancy Crawford, in the Globe, is vastly superior to the ordinary run of newspaper fiction,” This novel appeared in The Evening Globe and not in the morning edition. [page 117]
BOOK REFERENCES
THE CANADIAN BIRTHDAY BOOK
	With Poetical Selections for every day in the year from Canadian writers, English and French [Compiled by] Seranus [Mrs. J.W.F. Harrison]. Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1887. Contains sixteen poems, or extracts from poems, of Miss Crawford, being the first Canadian anthology to contain work of hers. The compiler in index references speaks of Miss Crawford’s verse as being “almost the finest yet produced in Canada, being instinct with a breadth and vigour and melody unsurpassed (sic) by few living writers.”
SONGS OF THE GREAT DOMINION
	Voices from the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada. Selected and edited by William Douw Lighthall, M.A., Montreal. London: Walter Scott, 1889. Pp. xxvi-vii and 450, with selections interspersed through the volume.
CANADIAN POEMS AND LAYS
	Selections from Native Verse, reflecting the Seasons, Legends, and Life of the Dominion. Arranged and edited by William Douw Lighthall, M.A., Montreal. London: Walter Scott (Limited), (1891). (Re-issue, condensed and in smaller format, of Songs of the Great Dominion). pp. xxii-iii, with selections interspersed throughout the volume.
CANADA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE COUNTRY
	Edited by J. Castell Hopkins, 6 vols. Toronto: The Linscott Publishing Co. (1891). Vol. V, p. 170, “Canadian Women Writers,” by Thomas O’Hagan. [page 118]
YOUNGER AMERICAN POETS (1830-1890)
	Edited by Douglas Sladen, with an Appendix of Younger Canadian Poets. Edited by Goodridge Bliss Roberts. The Cassell Publishing Company, New York, 1891, “The Canoe,” quoted pp. 543-5, constituting the first appearance of Miss Crawford’s verse in an American Anthology.
A VICTORIAN ANTHOLOGY (1837-1895).
	Edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1895. “Isabella Valancy Crawford,” pp. 646-8 (including selections).
CANADIAN ESSAYS
	By Thomas O’Hagan, M.A., Ph. D. Toronto: William Briggs, 1901. Pp. 57-8, “Canadian Women Writers.”
CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS
	An Album of Portraits and Autograph Poems. Toronto: William Briggs, MDCCCII. “Isabella Valancy Crawford,” pp. 12-13 (facsimile of “Faith, Hope and Charity,” with portrait).
HANDBOOK OF CANADIAN LITERATURE (ENGLISH)
	By Archibald MacMurchy. M.A. Toronto: William Briggs, 1906. “Isabella Valancy Crawford,” pp. 144-7.
A LITTLE BOOK OF CANADIAN ESSAYS
	By Laurence J. Burpee. Toronto: The Musson Book Co. Ltd. (1909). “Isabella Valancy Crawford,” pp. 1-16.
ENGLISH-CANADIAN LITERATURE
	By T.G. Marquis. Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co., 1913. (Advance issue—for private circulation—of Chap. 74 from vol. XII: The Dominion: [page 119] Missions, Arts and Letters—of Canada and its Provinces. A History of the Canadian People and Their Institutions. By One Hundred Associates. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty, general editors. 22 Vols. Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.,1914.) Pp. 585-6.
CANADIAN POETS
	Chosen and Edited by John W. Garvin, B.A., Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart (1916). “Isabella Valancy Crawford,” pp. 33-46 (including 12 pages of selections), with portrait.
CANADA THE SPELLBINDER
	By Lilian Whiting. London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1917. Pp. 274-5, “Canadian Poets and Poetry.”
CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS
	A Collection of Portraits and Autograph Poems. Compiled by Edward S. Caswell. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart (1919). “Isabella Valancy Crawford,” pp 30-1 (facsimile of poem, “Faith, Hope and Charity,” with portrait (different from that in edition of 1902).
AMERICAN WRITERS OF THE PRESENT DAY
	Second Edition, revised and enlarged. By T.E. Rankin, Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan. Ann Arbour: George Wahr, 1920. Pp. 137 and 150.
CANADA AND ITS PROVINCES
	A History of the Canadian People and Their Institutions, by One Hundred Associates. The General editors are Adam Shortt and Arthur Doughty. Printed by C. and A. Constable at Edinburgh University Press for the Publishers’ Association of Canada, Limited. Toronto, Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1914. Vol.12, by T.G. [page 120] Marquis, entitled MISSION, ART, AND LETTERS, No. 2, pages 585-587. Photograph included.
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
THE TORONTO GLOBE, JUNE 4, 1884
	Review of “Old Spookses’ Pass.”
THE TORONTO EVENING TELEGRAM, JUNE 11, 1884
	Review of “Old Spookses’ Pass.”
THE WEEK (Toronto), SEPT. 11, 1884
	Review of “Old Spookses’ Pass”
THE SPECTATOR (London), OCT. 18, 1884
	Review of “Old Spookses’ Pass”
THE LEISURE HOUR (London), MARCH, 1885
	Review of “Old Spookses’ Pass,” by Rev. Harry Jones.
THE GRAPHIC (London), APRIL 4, 1885
	Review of “Old Spookses’ Pass.”
SATURDAY REVIEW (London), MAY 23, 1885
	Review of “Old Spookses’ Pass.”
THE LITERARY WORLD (London), MARCH 19, 1886.
	Review of “Old Spookses’ Pass.”
THE ILLUSTATED LONDON NEWS, APRIL 3, 1886
	Review of “Old Spookses’ Pass.”
THE WEEK (Toronto), FEB. 24,1887
	“Isabella Valancy Crawford,” by “Seranus”(Mrs. J.W.F. Harrison).
THE CANADIAN MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1895
	“Isabella Valancy Crawford,” By E.J. Hathaway.
THE TORONTO GLOBE, DEC. 16, 1905
	Editorial: “Two Canadian Poets” (William Wilfred Campbell and Isabella Valancy Crawford.) [page 121]
THE GLOBE MAGAZINE
	Toronto, April 15 and 22, 1905, contains a sketch of the life of Miss Crawford, by Maud Wheeler Wilson. Toronto, December 30, 1905, contains a lengthy review of “The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford.”
THE SENTINEL-REVIEW
	Woodstock, December 18, 1905, has a lengthy editorial, entitled, “Isabella Valancy Crawford.”
METHODIST MAGAZINE AND REVIEW
	December, 1905, reviews at length “The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford.”
CANADA WEEKLY, MARCH 30, 1918
	“Canadian Poets: The Tragic Story of Isabella Valancy Crawford,” by Katherine Hale (Mrs. John W. Garvin).
THE WEEK, Toronto, September 11, 1884
	Page 653, has a short review of “Old Spookses’ Pass and Other Poems.” Toronto, February 24,1887, has an appreciative article on Miss Crawford by “Seranus.”
THE VARSITY
	University of Toronto, January 23, 1886, page 116, has an editorial reference.
THE TORONTO GLOBE
	Toronto, February 14, 1887, an obituary appreciation.
THE EVENING TELEGRAM
	Toronto, February 14, 1887, an obituary appreciation. Toronto, November 8, 1884, contains the review of the Spectator, London, England, of “Old Spookses’ Pass, etc.” [page 122]