Isabella Valancy Crawford

Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887), born in Dublin, emigrated as a child with her family, first to Wisconsin, then to the Ontario villages of Paisley, in 1858, and Lakefield, before settling in Peterborough. She supported her mother by her pen, with verse in the Toronto newspapers and serials in the New York magazines, and a novel appeared as a serial in the Evening Globe in 1886. Settled in 1883 with her mother in boarding-house rooms in Toronto, she died there suddenly, in straitened circumstances.

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• PoetryOld Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other PoemsIsabella Valancy Crawford · 1884Literature