Preface by Michle Lacombe & John Lennox. Topics include: Canadian women in fiction and fact; Martha Ostenso; Susanna Moodie; Catharine Parr Traill; Sara Jeannette Duncan's The Imperialist; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; The Glassy Sea by Marian Engel; Evelyn Eaton; L. M. Montogomery; Margaret Laurence; Gabrielle Roy; Northrop Frye.
