Mary Frances Ames (1853-1929), An ABC for Baby Patriots, 1899. Courtesy Representative Poetry Online.
Mary Francis Leslie Ames (1853-1929) was a Canadian poet who wrote and illustrated children's books.[1]
Life[]
Born Mary Frances Leslie Miller, she married Ernest Ames, a railway engineer,[1] and authored and illustrated children's books as Ernest Ames or Mrs. Ernest Ames. She wrote An ABC, for Baby Patriots (1899), which was used for teaching children the alphabet,[2] and illustrated The Tremendous Twins; or How the Boers were beaten (1900) and Really and Truly! or, The century for babes, books of verse written by her husband Ernest.[1]
Books by Mrs. Ames are taught as examples of imperialism and colonialism in literature classes,[3] and cited as such elsewhere.[4]
Writing[]
From An ABC, for Baby Patriots, 1899:
A is the Army
That dies for the Queen;
It's the very best Army
That ever was seen,
B stands for Battles
By which England's name
Has for ever been covered
With glory and fame.[1]
Publications[]
- An ABC, for Baby Patriots. London: Dean & Son, 1899.[5]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ames, Mary Frances Leslie, Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto. Web, Mar. 22, 2012.
- ↑ Silver, Lara. "Canada Fit for War: Image and Development of the Canadian Soldier, 1870–1914". British Association for Canadian Studies. http://www.canadian-studies.info/lccs/LJCS/current/Silver.pdf. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ↑ "English 315: Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Indian Writing in English". English and Film Studies. University of Alberta. http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/English/2006-300level.html. Retrieved 2008-10-21.Template:Dead link
- ↑ "Paperback Roundup". The Independent. 6 September 1998. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n14166392. Retrieved 2008-10-21. Template:Dead link
- ↑ An ABC, for Baby Patriots, Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto. Web, June 27, 2013
External links[]
- Poems
- Ames, Mary Frances Leslie at Representative Poetry Online ("An ABC, for Baby Patriots")
- Books
- Mrs. Ernest Ames at Amazon.ca
- About
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