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- Title: Discovering Lily Lewis: A Canadian Journalist and New Woman.
- Author : English Studies in Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 223 KB
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IN SEPTEMBER, 1888, TWO YOUNG CANADIAN JOURNALISTS, Sara Jeannette Duncan, originally from Brantford, Ontario, and Lily Lewis, of Montreal, headed west on the CPR, beginning a trip that would take them to points in western Canada, to Japan, India, Egypt, and eventually to England. Both had obtained commissions to send regular articles to prominent newspapers in eastern Canada, writing under already well-known pseudonyms: Duncan as "Garth Grafton" for the Montreal Daily Star and Lewis as "Louis Lloyd" for the Toronto paper The Week. Neither returned to Canada to live. Duncan settled in India and has been increasingly recognized for her novels, stories, and sketches, her first published work being A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World By Ourselves, a partially fictionalized account of the world tour. Lewis has been almost entirely forgotten or misremembered as Duncan's fictional "Orthodocia." According to Canadian bibliographer Henry Morgan, Lewis lived in Paris following the tour, at least until 1912, and continued to publish a variety of work. Almost nothing has been known about her personal life, however, and her work prior to and following the tour has received no critical attention. In the pages that follow, I begin to redress that neglect. I became interested in Lily Lewis when I discovered just how absent she was from sources of information about Canadian women writers of her time, and several years ago began a dissertation project hoping to learn something about Lily Lewis's life and recover as much as I could of her later writing. Duncan's and Lewis's accounts of their journey in the Star and The Week, respectively, were easily accessible when I began my project. Also readily available were thirty-three sketches by Louis Lloyd published in The Week between November 1887 and September 1888 under the heading "Montreal Letter," a regularly-appearing column in which Lloyd describes and comments upon people, places, and current culture in Montreal. The following entry from Henry Morgan's Men and Women of the Time, published in 1912, describes Lily Lewis's career as an author as she would have described it to him: