by George J. Dance
Norah Mary Holland (1876-1925) was a Canadian poet.
Norah M. Holland (1876-1925) in Canadian Singers and their Songs, 1919. Courtesy Internet Archive.
| Norah M. Holland | |
|---|---|
 Norah M. Holland; sketch by W.B. Yeats | |
| Born |
1876 Collingwood, Ontario |
| Died | 1925 |
| Nationality |
 Canadian |
| Citizenship | British subject |
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Holland was born in Collingwood, Ontario, the daughter of Elizabeth (Yeats) and John H. Holland. Her mother was a 1st cousin of Irish poet William Butler Yeats.[1]
In 1889 the Hollands moved to Toronto, and Norah completed her education at Toronto's Parkdale Collegiate.[1]
Career[]
Holland worked for the Dominion Press Clipping Bureau for 8 years, and then joined the Toronto Daily News.[1]
Her play, When Half Gods Go, was the final performance staged by Toronto's Margaret Eaton School of Literature and Expression in 1928.[2]
Writing[]
The Globe (Toronto): "Her verses show that she has encountered sorrow and met the trials of a toiling world, but these have never checked the play of humour, which dances irrepressibly among them, nor clouded a clarity of judgment as shrewd and guileless as a child's. The hand of Materialism has never touched her, and there is none of the soil of sordidness upon her garments.[1]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Spun Yarn and Spindrift. London &Toronto: J.M. Dent / New York: E.P. Dutton, 1918.
- When Half Gods Go, and other poems. New York & Toronto: Macmillan, 1924.
Touching Video - A Little Dog Angel
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 John Garvin, "Norah M. Holland," Canadian Poets (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916), 407-408, Digital Library, University of Pennsylvania, UPenn.edu, Web, Feb. 18, 2012.
- ↑ Chris Bateman, "A Brief History of the Margaret Eaton School in Toronto," blogTO, Jan. 16, 2012, Web, Feb. 18, 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:Norah M. Holland, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 27, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "The Little Dog-Angel"
- Norah M. Holland in Canadian Poets: 7 poems
- Norah M. Holland at PoemHunter (8 poems)
- Books
- Works by Norah M. Holland at Project Gutenberg
- Norah M. Holland at Amazon.com
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