Details

Title

The Blower of Bubbles

Author

Baxter, Arthur Beverley

Physical Description

338 p. ; 19.2 x 13.3 cm

Place of Publication

Toronto, ON

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Edition

First

Copyright Date

1920 Show more1920-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Date of Publication

1920 Show more1920-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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1920 Show more1920-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

In the introduction to this volume, author Arthur Beverley Baxter, notes that the First World War was the backdrop to the stories collected here. While war isn't the _subject_ of each story, he says that "war has been a fever in our blood these last four years" and that his stories are meant to foster "kinship" across the Dominion to England. Baxter himself served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, posted in England. He was perhaps better known in his lifetime as a journalist, writing for papers in London and beyond before working as a theatre critic and then politician. The stories here are short sketches of everyday people, in England and Canada. Research by the donor has verified that volume was owned by L.M. Montgomery and later owned by Mrs. E.C. Webb (mother of Anita Webb, to whom Montgomery gave this copy of her 'Further Chronicles of Avonlea'). Mrs. Webb is Myrtle MacNeill, who lived with her husband at the house later to be called 'Green Gables' until 1936 when it became part of the National Park in Cavendish. The inscription on the inside reads, "L.M. Montgomery Macdonald 1920." Another inscription below it reads: "Mrs. E.C. Webb. Xmas 1924."

Genre

short story

Call Number(s)

950 SI P.LIB.LMM 1920