My name is on this one, but it is a collaborative effort of a number of the members of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle. What is that? Well, you'll just have to check out the website to know for sure, won't you? Now the blurby:

Yes, there is much to fear in the Circle’s first print publication, but much more to enjoy.

Years before H.G. Wells penned The War of the Worlds, Emily Chesley was defying upper class standards and shattering Victorian assumptions (not to mention a few pelvises). An author, poet, social activist, explorer, aviatrix, and 92-year-old pole vaulter, Emily Chesley is one of Canada’s most interesting–and neglected–writers.

Download a sample of the bio [pdf - 260 kb]
Listen to the CBC interview about the book here. [opens giant mp3 file]

“I now have indelibly burned onto my retinas the image of Emily cavorting about in the backwaters of some forgotten body of water, looking for her lost love … bethonged hindward parts bobbing up and down with each dive. I don’t know whether to thank or curse the writers… I am also now incredibly afraid of ‘fence wedgies’.”

–Don Muchow, Editor, Would That It Were

 

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