Great Dames

by Elspeth Cameron

Great Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the possibility of challenging, even subverting, the traditional view of life writing as an endeavour to summarize and fix in time, the public careers of public men. The fifteen essays represent a variety of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802072151
• ISBN13: 9780802072153
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.5"