Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . emporalPoioer {\()Oi). Elizabeth Rollins, distinguished on the stage for herinterpretations of Ibsen, has as C. E. Raimondwritten The Open Question and other notable novels. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (by marriage Mrs Felkin)published poems and the novels Concerning IsabelCai-naby (1898), A Double Thread, The Farringdons,Loves Argument, Place and Poiver. Mary Cholmoiideley, author of The Danvers Je^vel
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . emporalPoioer {\()Oi). Elizabeth Rollins, distinguished on the stage for herinterpretations of Ibsen, has as C. E. Raimondwritten The Open Question and other notable novels. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (by marriage Mrs Felkin)published poems and the novels Concerning IsabelCai-naby (1898), A Double Thread, The Farringdons,Loves Argument, Place and Poiver. Mary Cholmoiideley, author of The Danvers Je^vels,Sir Charles Danvers, Diana Tempest, and A Devotee,became famous in 1899 through her Red Pottage. Jane Barlow, beginning with Bogland Studies and h-ishIdylls in 1892, has become an authoritative exponentof the kindlier side of Irish life in fact and romance. Violet Martin, writing as Martin Ross, in conjunctionwith Edith <E. Somerville has produced a seriesof stories, tragic and humorous—An Irish Cousin,Through Connemara, The Real Charlotte, The SilverFox, Some Experiences of an Irish 150 ENGLISH LITERATURE IX THE BRITISHDOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS. Ens:lish Literature in HE Dominion of Canada, evenwithout its Arctic islands, occu-pies more of the surface of theNorth American continent thanthe United States, and is inarea Httle less than the wholeof Europe. But at the begin-ning of the twentieth centurythe energetic population who had already givenit its rank amongst the most promising coun-tries and communities of the world numberedless than five and a half millions—a little morenumerous than the people of the Netherlands atthe same date, larger by a million than the popu-lation of Scotland, but less by a million than thepopulation of Greater London. Only since theearly years of the seventeenth century has anypart of what we now call Canada been the homeof men of European blood and speech. Theearliest settlers were Frenchmen, whose sparselypeopled settlemen
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