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  1. Who was Doris Hedges?
    the search for Canada's first literary agent
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal

    "Despite her trail-blazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "Despite her trail-blazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from Canadian literary histories. In Who Was Doris Hedges? Robert Lecker provides a detailed account of her remarkable career. Hedges published several novels, short stories, and books of poetry, moved in Montreal literary circles, did a stint as a radio broadcaster, and provided reports to the Wartime Information Board during World War II, possibly as an American spy. She lived a privileged life in the Golden Square Mile district of downtown Montreal with her husband, Geoffrey Hedges, a member of the Benson and Hedges tobacco empire. The more one uncovers about Hedges' life, the more one discovers a courageous figure who was exploring many of the conflicted issues of her day: the rise of juvenile delinquency, the suppression of female sexuality, the place of women in business and finance, the difficulties confronting the publishing industry in the years leading up to and following the war. Mixing lively biographical commentary with literary analysis, Who Was Doris Hedges? is a vivid account of a writer's life and concerns during a period when Canada's literature was coming of age."--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780228003694
    Subjects: Authors, Canadian; Literary agents; Canadian literature; Authors, Canadian; Canadian literature; Literary agents; Biographies; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Biographies
    Other subjects: Hedges, Doris (1896-1972)
    Scope: viii, 293 pages, illustrations, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Who was Doris Hedges?
    the search for Canada's first literary agent
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago

    "Despite her trail-blazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from... more

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "Despite her trail-blazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from Canadian literary histories. In Who Was Doris Hedges? Robert Lecker provides a detailed account of her remarkable career. Hedges published several novels, short stories, and books of poetry, moved in Montreal literary circles, did a stint as a radio broadcaster, and provided reports to the Wartime Information Board during World War II, possibly as an American spy. She lived a privileged life in the Golden Square Mile district of downtown Montreal with her husband, Geoffrey Hedges, a member of the Benson and Hedges tobacco empire. The more one uncovers about Hedges' life, the more one discovers a courageous figure who was exploring many of the conflicted issues of her day: the rise of juvenile delinquency, the suppression of female sexuality, the place of women in business and finance, the difficulties confronting the publishing industry in the years leading up to and following the war. Mixing lively biographical commentary with literary analysis, Who Was Doris Hedges? is a vivid account of a writer's life and concerns during a period when Canada's literature was coming of age."--

     

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  3. Who was Doris Hedges?
    the search for Canada's first literary agent
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal

    "Despite her trail-blazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    10 A 136625
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "Despite her trail-blazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from Canadian literary histories. In Who Was Doris Hedges? Robert Lecker provides a detailed account of her remarkable career. Hedges published several novels, short stories, and books of poetry, moved in Montreal literary circles, did a stint as a radio broadcaster, and provided reports to the Wartime Information Board during World War II, possibly as an American spy. She lived a privileged life in the Golden Square Mile district of downtown Montreal with her husband, Geoffrey Hedges, a member of the Benson and Hedges tobacco empire. The more one uncovers about Hedges' life, the more one discovers a courageous figure who was exploring many of the conflicted issues of her day: the rise of juvenile delinquency, the suppression of female sexuality, the place of women in business and finance, the difficulties confronting the publishing industry in the years leading up to and following the war. Mixing lively biographical commentary with literary analysis, Who Was Doris Hedges? is a vivid account of a writer's life and concerns during a period when Canada's literature was coming of age."--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780228003694
    Subjects: Authors, Canadian; Literary agents; Canadian literature; Authors, Canadian; Canadian literature; Literary agents; Biographies; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Biographies
    Other subjects: Hedges, Doris (1896-1972)
    Scope: viii, 293 pages, illustrations, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  4. Who Was Doris Hedges?
    The Search for Canada's First Literary Agent
    Published: 2020; ©2020
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal

    A lively biography of Canada's first literary agent and her efforts to forge a writing career in Montreal. more

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    A lively biography of Canada's first literary agent and her efforts to forge a writing career in Montreal.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780228004776
    Subjects: Authors, Canadian; Literary agents; Canadian literature; Canadian literature; Electronic books
    Other subjects: Hedges, Doris (1896-1972)
    Scope: 1 online resource (0 pages)
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