Ruth Anne Latta

  http://www. compulsivereader.com/2022/09/ 14/a-review-of-women-winning- office-by-peggy-nash/ Above is the link to my review of Peggy Nash's Women Winning Office , published in Compulsive Reader.

  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...

Above are my five most recent novels, all of them inspired by or based on Canadian women. The earliest.  The young adult novels, The Songcatcher and Me , and Grace and the Secret Vault, are inspired by folk song collector Edith Fowke and Grace Woodsworth, respectively.  Next to be published is Grace in Love, followed by Votes, Love and War and its stand alone sequel, A Girl Should Be .  All are available from info@baico.ca or from me, as well as being on Amazon. Information about my earlier books can be found by searching under my name.

 Votes, Love and War, and Other Novels by Ruth Latta Published on the web page of the Media Club of Ottawa, March 2022  For the past few years I have been writing historical novels about Canadian women. As a child I liked bedtime stories about my mother’s young years, and one of my favourite books when I was growing up was John F. Hayes’ award-winning novel, Rebels Ride at Night , about the Rebellions of 1837. Eventually I studied History at university (Queen’s, M.A., 1973, Ruth “Olson”.) Since 2012 I have published five historical novels. People used to ask me, “What can you do with a Master’s in History?” and these books are my answer to that question. Reviewing young adult historical novels for the online magazine, Canadian Materials , boosted my self-confidence about writing one. I’m concerned about Canadians’ lack of knowledge of our history, and, in a small way I hope to remedy this lack of knowledge with entertaining novels about women who did not conform to conventio...

      Because of difficulties in posting on my old blog, ruthlatta.blogspot.com, I am starting a new blog, and regretfully, I'm beginning with something sad.  On June 1, 2022 my sister, Sandra Elaine (Bott) Edwards, died in hospital in Sudbury. I still can't believe she is gone.  Roger and I, her husband, George Edwards, and her daughters Carla Edwards Palangio and Lesley Edwards Twaworsky, along with their husbands and children, miss her terribly.     The pictures above show  1) Sandra and me when we were still preschoolers, back in the days of black and white photography. 2) Sandra, George, Roger and me last summer 3) Sandra in a photo that embarrassed her but which we all think is lovely. A Celebration of Life is being held in her honour on July 9, 2022, near her home in Englehart, Ontario.