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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGN: Brant Cowie. CONTENTS: Preface; ONE Myself; TWO Father; THREE Brother; FOUR Friend; FIVE Myself Revisited; Appendix I The Fathers Who Begat Us; Appendix II Pre-1940 Public-School Education in Ontario. SYNOPSIS: Grace Irwin has had a career varied and independent enough to satisfy any feminist: as classicist, teacher, novelist, lecturer, play-director, amateur actress, pastor, and ordained minister; also home-maker, cook, baker, and party-giver. Here, however, her aim is to pay tribute to others, as she writes with disarming admiration and warmth in prise of three men whose lives and personalities contributed largely to her own: two John Irwins--one her farther, the other her brother, well known for his achievements in forestry and publishing--and Herbert Harold Kent, architect and pastor. She relates the intertwining of their lives and hers in highly readable, often pungent, prose. Herself completely and joyfully feminine, she nonetheless resents the current downgrading of the Male Fact--a theme that runs through this lively, celebratory memoir. Grace Irwin was born in 1907 in Toronto, youngest of five children of John Irwin and Martha Fortune. She received her secondary-school education at Parkdale Collegiate Institute before proceeding to Victoria College at the university of Toronto. To an Honour BA in Classics with standing in Honour English, she added an MA in Greek drama and philosophy, from the University of Toronto. She is the author of six widely read novels. Her third novel, In Little Place, reflects her attitudes and experiences during thirty-nine years of teaching, all but one of them at Humberside Collegiate. Her British roots, her love of history, above all her identification with individuals living or dead--these help create the vivid pictures of John Newton and Lord Shaftesbury respectively, in her historical novels Servant of Slaves and The Seventh Earl. And new discoverers of her Andrew Connington trilogy, written over a period of thirty years, testify to the undated reality of her hero. "There was an Andrew Connington, wasn't there? " is the question still most frequently asked by male readers. Some years after retirement in 1969, the unexpectedly found herself co-pastor, then pastor, of her church in West Toronto, where she was ordained by the Christian congregational Conference of Ontario in 1980.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Inscribed/Signed by Author Hard covers in dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Illustrated. A sound and handsome copy, neat.
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Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 0772516820. Inscribed By Author. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; Coffee stain on bottom edge of text block.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall; Signed by Author.
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Near Fine. Author pays tribute to her father (one of the founders of Clarke, Irwin & Company, a Canadian publishing company) and brother. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Photographic illustrations. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 245 pp.
