Emily Poynton Weaver

Emily Poynton Weaver (1865–1943) was a Canadian author. She was born near Manchester, England, went to Canada with her parents in 1880, and lived in Oxford County, Ontario, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto, Ontario. She contributed short stories and historical essays to the leading British and American periodicals and published several full-length novels.

Bibliography

Fiction
  • My Lady Nell (1890) Historical romance of the Jacobean era.
  • The Rabbi's Sons: A Story of the Days of St. Paul (1891) Historical romance of the Biblical era.
  • Soldiers of Liberty: A Story of Wars in the Netherlands (1892) Set during the Eighty Years' War.
  • Prince Rupert's Namesake (1893)
  • The Rainproof Invention (1896)
  • The Trouble Man (1910)
  • The Only Girl: A Tale of 1837 (1925)

Non-fiction
  • A Canadian History for Boys and Girls (1905)
  • Builders of the Dominion: Men of the East (1907)
  • Old Quebec: The City of Champlain (1908)
  • The Stories of the Counties of Ontario (1913)
  • Canada and the British Immigrant (1914) A factual guide to immigrants.
  • Works by Emily Poynton Weaver at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by Emily Poynton Weaver at Faded Page (Canada)
  • Emily Poynton Weaver bibliography, citing Watters, Reginald Eyre. "A Checklist of Canadian Literature and Background Material, 1682-1960." (2nd Revised Ed.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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