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Spinster and the prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the purloined past.

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Date: 20011001
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A.B.McKillop's The Spinster and the Prophet, subtitled Florence Deeks, H. G. Wells and the Purloined Past, investigates an imperfectly known but fascinating episode in Canadian literary and legal history. The book was nominated for a Governor-General's Award for non-fiction in 2000. It is a work of history, but falls within the Simon Schama School of history -- it includes a healthy dose of "creative non-fiction" together with the fruits of traditional research and scholarship. There is nothing particularly wrong with narrative history of this kind, but the reader would be wise to ...

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