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Attractive pamphlet containing a collection of verses written by 34 members of the Toronto Women’s Press Club, including one from Lucy Maude Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
A snapshot of early 20th-century Canadian women’s literary expression and a rare example of collaborative, grassroots publishing by women in journalism
Attractive cover art and printed on thick rag paper.
VERSE & REVERSE
The Toronto Women’s Press Club
F.D. Goodchild, Limited Publisher Toronto
Warwick Bros. & Rutter Limited Printed and Bookbinders Toronto
Prefatory Note by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
Dedication “Rilla, With best Christmas Wishes ---". Some poems have small light pencil dates beside them
Small crease UR corner of cover.
48 pages
19 ½ x 15 cm
The Toronto Women's Press Club was a branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC), founded in 1904 to support and elevate women in journalism across Canada.
The CWPC—and by extension its Toronto branch—was created by a group of pioneering Canadian women journalists following a trip to the St. Louis World's Fair. The idea was proposed by George Henry Ham, a publicity director for the Canadian Pacific Railway, who had organized the trip. The club's founding members included Kathleen “Kit” Coleman, Robertine Barry, Anne-Marie Gleason, and Kate Simpson Hayes, among others.
