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Article: The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and their Books, 1836-1945. (Canadian Women Authors).
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- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
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- March 22, 2002
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Anne Innis Dagg, THE FEMININE GAZE: A CANADIAN COMPENDIUM OF NON-FICTION WOMEN AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS, 1836-1945. Waterloo, Ont., Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. 346p. index. $45.00, ISBN 0-88920-355-5.
Many reference works now cover women fiction writers and their works, but those that focus on nonfiction authors are few, with the Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes on American women prose writers being the most notable exceptions. (1) Although there are several anthologies of prose writing by Canadian women, including one with an even more specialized focus, Pillars of Lace: The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Women Writers, edited by Marisa ...