New writing project
In 2021, in the middle of Covid-19 I published my novel, A Girl Should Be . After that, I felt lonely for a writing project. I have written five Canadian historical novels centred on real or fictional women characters and populated both by imaginary people and people who existed in the past. I wrote about the Manitoba women's suffrage movement and World War I; a family's involvement in the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike; two separate novels about young women coming of age in the Roaring Twenties and the Dirty Thirties (1920s and 1930s) and folk song collecting in Ontario in the 1950s - not in that order. In the years since my Master of Arts degree in History (Queen's, Ruth "Olson"), I have kept on reading and thinking about history, and reading historical novels. Historical novels I read when young started me on the path to history and to writing this type of novel. This past year, still reeling from the impact of t...