Isabella Valancy Crawford Writer

Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1846 – 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet. She was one of the first Canadians to make a living as a freelance writer."Crawford is increasingly being viewed as Canada's first major poet." She is the author of "Malcolm's Katie," a poem that has achieved "a central place in the canon of nineteenth-century Canadian poetry."

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Isabella Valancy Crawford
Birth dateDecember 25, 1850
Birth place
Dublin , Ireland
Ethnicity
Ireland
Date of deathFebruary 12, 1887
Resting place
Peterborough Ontario

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