E.[Emily] Pauline JOHNSON, (Tekahionwake)�  [1861-1913]

A Rare and True Canadian Original

The members of the audience would chat eagerly amongst themselves in anticipation of the performance they were about to watch. The scuttlebutt at the posh cocktail parties and high teas had been all about this rather curious woman who dresses up in Indian garb and rattles on poetically about that freezing, primitive colony across the Atlantic known as Canada. 

The curtains are drawn back and there centre stage is a figure resplendent in genuine native attire. She is dressed in deer hide from head to toe adorned with porcupine quills and beading that can only be created...READ MORE 

 

"Bibliomania." "Bibliomaniac." These two words are thought to have first been coined in the English language by Dr. John Ferriar (1761-1815), a physician at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, as long ago as 1809. They were and are still used to describe a person who suffers from the "craze for collecting rare books." These words are related to, albeit ought to be distinguished from, the "bibliophile" or "bibliophilist,"  which refer to a person or collector who "loves or admires books, especially for their style of binding, printing &c." ...READ MORE