Fiction Treasures by Maritime Writers: Best-selling novelists of Canadas Maritime provinces 1860-1950

Though little known today, from 1860 to 1940 Canadian novelists from the Maritime provinces were writing highly successful books which were widely read in Canada, the US, and Britain. Although today only Lucy Maud Montgomery is remembered and read, there were several dozen writers who enjoyed the same level of success and renown. This book brings these authors and their most successful books back into the spotlight of Canadian writing.

In 2001, Canadian literature specialist Gwen Davies and...