The Literary Garland was a Canadian literary magazine published in Montreal in the first half of the 19th century.[1] It was the first notably successful literary magazine published in Upper or Lower Canada.[2]
History[]
The publisher was John Lovell, and the editor was John Gibson.[1] The magazine ran from December 1838 to December 1851, for a total of 13 volumes.[2]
The Literary Garland's most frequent contributor was Susanna Moodie.[1] She contributed to every volume.[2] Moodie published six "Canadian sketches" in 1847 – "Old Woodruff and his Three Wives" (January, p. 13); "The Walk to Dummer" (March, p. 101); "Our Borrowing" (May, p. 197); "Tom Wilson’s Emmigration" (June, p. 283 and July, p. 293), "Uncle Joe and his Family" (August, p. 363 and September, p. 423), and "Brian and the Still Hunter" (October, p. 400) – that would later appear in her best-known work, Roughing It in the Bush.[3]
Canadian poet and novelist Rosanna Leprohon, who published under the initials "R.E.M." (for Rosanna Eleanor Mullins) owed her career to the Garland. She published her first work (a poem) in it in 1846, at the age of 16.[3] It was "followed by serialized novels of manners set in England, published annually from 1848 to 1851."[4] Ida Beresford, her first novel, first ran in the Garland in nine instalments in 1848.[5]
Other contributors included Anna Jameson, John Richardson, Charles Sangster, and Catharine Parr Traill.[1]
Two sisters from Boston, Harriet Vaughan Cheney and Eliza Lanesford Cushing, both married Canadian husbands and moved to Montreal in the 1830s. Both became frequent contributors to the Literary Garland. When John Gibson died in 1850, Eliza Cushing became the magazine's editor.[6]
The Literary Garland ceased publication in 1851, mainly because of competition from the new Harper's New Monthly Magazine.[6]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Marilyn G. Flitton, "Literary magazines in English," The Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1219. Print.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Literary Garland, Glossary and Explanatory Notes, Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill, Library and Archives Canada, Web, Mar. 10, 2012,
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Judi M, "The Literary Garland," Canadiana, Jun. 28, 2011, Web, Mar. 10, 2012.
- ↑ John R. Sorfleet, "Leprohon, Rosanna Eleanor," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1202, Print.
- ↑ "Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon," Old Poetry, Web, May 1, 2011.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Eliza Lanesford Cushing," Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Web, Sep. 4, 2011.
External links[]
- The Literary Garland, and British North American magazine, Google Books.
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