Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier

by Jean Barman

Constance Lindsay Skinner made a living as a writer at a time when few men, and fewer women, managed the feat. Born in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, she worked as a journalist in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Chicago, before moving to New York City in 1912, where she supported herself by her pen until her death in 1939. Despite a prolific output - poetry, plays, short stories, histories, reviews, adult and children's novels - and in contrast...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802036783
• ISBN13: 9780802036780
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 8.8"