Agnes Maule Machar

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Standard Name: Machar, Agnes Maule
Birth Name: Agnes Maule Machar
Pseudonym: Fidelis
Pseudonym: A Lady of Ontario
Pseudonym: Canadensis
Canadian writer AMM wrote eight novels, many dealing with Canadian themes.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
She also published poetry, journalism, biographies, travel guides, and children's literature, often with a didactic tone, and most on social issues such as temperance, working conditions, universal education, poverty, and women's rights. When tackling issues such as poverty and alcoholism in her fiction, AMM sought answers in the Social Gospel creed of individual religious conversion combined with good deeds among the poor.
Gerson, Carole. A Purer Taste: The Writing and Reading of Fiction in English in Nineteenth-Century Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1989.
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She was one of the best-known women writers in post-Confederation Canada, particularly for her journalism, and has been described as an ardent literary nationalist.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Gerson, Carole. A Purer Taste: The Writing and Reading of Fiction in English in Nineteenth-Century Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1989.
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Black and white photograph of Agnes Maule Machar, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a dark dress with a lace collar and buttons up the front, and her dark hair is pulled back. Below her photograph is the caption, "Agnes Maule Machar: Author of 'Lays of the True North,' etc."

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Grant Allen
Agnes Maule Machar , Canadian novelist, poet, biographer, and travel writer, was GA 's sister-in-law. (His sister—unmentioned in his ODNB entry—married her brother.)
Gerson, Carole. Emails about Machar and Allen to Kate Carter.
Textual Production Pauline Johnson
Also read that night was poetry by Agnes Maule Machar and Wilfrid Campbell . PJ 's encore piece was As Red Men Die, based on a legend about a Mohawk man who chooses death...

Timeline

19 June 1812
Following years of strained British-American relations, US president Madison declared war on Britain (including British Canada); this began the War of 1812.