Veronica Strong-Boag

PJ grew up with servants, usually three: a nurse, a cook, and a man to oversee the stables. Her home had the accoutrements of a middle-class life including a piano, silver tea service, books...

Critics Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag argue that during this period PJcontributed significantly to the remarkable upsurge of Canadian literary activity that occurred during an era of fervent cultural and political nationalism on both...

Biographer Betty Keller believes that the poem was first penned in 1879 and addressed to PJ 's close friend Jean Morton , from the Brantford Collegiate Institute , PJ 's high school. Biographers Gerson and...