Rebel Women
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Rebel Women begins by moving in and out of women's kitchens, parlours, meetings, and wagon-rides on the eve and throughout Toronto's 1837 Rebellion. The poems let the reader eavesdrop on the loves, fears, hatreds, and courage of these feisty pioneers as they are engulfed by an uprising some did or did not support. The poems are based on the stories, gossip, and rumours that Kasper's grandmother, Statira Catherine Shepard—the granddaughter of Joseph Shepard, a prominent leader of the Reform Party (after whom Sheppard Avenue is named) and the youngest daughter of Rebel Joseph (jailed for insurrection with his three brothers)— shared with the poet when she was growing up. Almost nothing has been written about the women who supported, opposed or endured the failed December Rebellion of 1837—certainly not in poetry. This collection honours these daring women, what happened to them, and how they took charge of their lives. This volume also features poems about Kasper's impoverished, eccentric family and provide a glimpse of Toronto when it was still considered a "hick town."

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Publisher
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Year
2013
ISBN
9781771330473
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Women in Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Vancy Kasper
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Notice
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Epigraph
  8. Introduction
  9. Historical Notes
  10. Rebel Women
  11. Catherine Shepard, January 1838
  12. What A Rebel Woman Knows
  13. Bonny Catherine Shepard
  14. My Grandmother Crochets
  15. Grandma and Me
  16. Sunday in the Wartime Nursery
  17. Nancy Wilket Shepard
  18. Tipperary Mary Switzer, Streetsville, 1838
  19. Labelled Rebels Forever
  20. Maria Van Egmond, January 1838
  21. What the Women Knew About Tory Champions of Law, Order
  22. No Whiskey for Remembrance
  23. Toronto Ladies Club Job Interview 1948
  24. MotherSong
  25. FatherSong
  26. MotherMemories
  27. MotherSearch
  28. friends forever
  29. Big Black Sunshiny Day
  30. Forcing the Rogue to Wait
  31. Ayanna’s Slow Dance
  32. Bequests
  33. Ghazal
  34. friendsong
  35. A Writer’s Groupie
  36. What We Don’t Say
  37. Nothing Will Ever Be The Same
  38. WidowSong
  39. Where Did She Go?
  40. Notes on the Text
  41. Acknowledgements
  42. About the Author