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Isabella Valancy Crawford

1850–1887

Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887) was born in Dublin and raised in Ontario, and supported herself and her family by writing poems and stories for periodicals.

Her only book in her lifetime was Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems (1884), which brought her little notice until after her death. One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.

Poems (12)

  1. Song of the Axe
  2. From "Malcolm's Katie" (I)
  3. From "Malcolm's Katie" (II)
  4. The Farmer's Daughter Cherry
  5. The Canoe
  6. Canoe Song
  7. March
  8. Love's Land
  9. Laughs
  10. The City Tree
  11. La Blanchisseuse
  12. Said the Daisy

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