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Dagg's volume has more long-term than short-term potential: a worthy volume, it will grow in value as time passes. The subtitle tells the story of this annotated biobibliography of 476 women, mostly Canadian, who wrote nonfiction in the early years of Canada's development. Writers of fiction (e.g., Lucy Maud Montgomery) are included if they also produced nonfiction, and non-Canadians such as Isabella Lucy Bird are listed for their works about Canadian topics, but due to time constraints, the author confesses, only anglophone women could be included. The introduction provides a particularly useful background. The arrangement of the entries is alphabetical, with each entry containing a brief bibliography of works both by and about the subject. This main section is followed by three marginally useful appendixes, a general bibliography, and an index. The index is not so thorough as one would like; for example, geographical cross-references are minimal. A chronological listing of entrants by date of birth might have been a useful addition. Recommended for larger libraries and research collections. M. M. Bohn University of Nebraska at Omaha
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
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