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Article: The Canadian Don Quixote: The Life and Works of Major John Richardson, Canada's first novelist.(Book Review)
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- The Loyalist Gazette
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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The Canadian Don Quixote: The Life and Works of Major John Richardson, Canada's first novelist
Author: David Beasley
Simcoe Ontario: Davus Publishing, 2004 Soft cover, 314 pages.
It was in 1963 when David Beasley located, in the John Askin Papers, a footnote referring to a Canadian novelist, Major John Richardson, who died of starvation in New York City on 12 May 1852. Intrigued, Beasley began researching this individual in order to discover who this early Canadian author was and what he wrote. The result of his vast and exhaustive research was first published in hard copy in 1977. This new release of the biography of Major John Richardson, ...