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Elizabeth Brewster

March 13, 2024

For the American Methodist missionary, see Elizabeth Fisher Brewster.

Elizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM SOM (26 August 1922 – 26 December 2012[1]) was a Canadian poet, author, and academic.[2]

Elizabeth Brewster
BornElizabeth Winifred Brewster
(1922-08-26)August 26, 1922
Chipman, New Brunswick
DiedDecember 26, 2012(2012-12-26) (aged 90)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
LanguageEnglish
Nationality Canadian
Alma materUniversity of New Brunswick
Radcliffe College
University of Toronto
Indiana University Bloomington
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsOrder of Canada Saskatchewan Order of Merit Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal

Biography edit

Born in the logging village of Chipman, New Brunswick, Brewster was the youngest of Frederick John and Ethel May (Day) Brewster's five children. The family was of limited means, and although she was a physically frail child with a sporadic early education, Brewster was a keen reader of any material that presented itself, including literary classics and the Eatons catalogue.[3] Her first poem, submitted by her father and accepted by the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, was published when she was twelve years old. After she graduated from high school in 1942, Brewster entered the University of New Brunswick on an entrance scholarship. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946, a Master of Arts from Harvard's Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1947, then began her PhD at Indiana University, before electing to travel to England on a Beaverbrook overseas scholarship to study at King's College, London from 1949 to 1950. She later earned a Bachelor of Library Science from the University of Toronto, then returned in 1957 to Indiana University Bloomington to complete her PhD on the work of English poet George Crabbe and graduated in 1962. She was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, where she taught literature and creative writing from 1972 until she retired in 1990.

A founding member in 1945 of the Canadian literary journal The Fiddlehead,[4] Brewster went on to publish over twenty collections of her poetry, five books of fiction, and two memoirs. Over the course of her long career, she was a recipient of the E.J. Pratt Award for poems from her second book Lillooet, the Saskatchewan Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary doctorate from the University of New Brunswick, the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry,[5] a Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2008,[6] and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, and several other honours. Her poetry collection Footnotes to the Book of Job was shortlisted for the 1996 Governor General's Award,[7] and in 2001, she was inducted as a Member[8] into the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour.

Selected bibliography edit

Poetry edit

  • East Coast. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951.
  • Lillooet (with art by JEH MacDonald and Thoreau MacDonald). Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1954.
  • Roads, and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1957.
  • Passage of Summer: Selected Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969.
  • Sunrise North. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1972.
  • In Search of Eros. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1974.
  • Sometimes I Think of Moving. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1977.
  • The Way Home. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1982.
  • Digging In. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1982.
  • Selected Poems, 1944-1977 & 1977-1984 (2 volumes). Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1985.
  • Entertaining Angels. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1988.
  • Spring Again. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1990. Finalist for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award.
  • Wheel of Change. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1993.
  • Footnotes to the Book of Job. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1995. Finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Award.
  • Garden of Sculpture. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1998.
  • Burning Bush. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2000.
  • Jacob's Dream. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2002. Winner of the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Award.
  • Collected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster 1. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2003.
  • Collected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster 2. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2004.
  • Bright Centre. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2005.
  • Time and Seasons. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2009.
  • The Essential Elizabeth Brewster - poems, ed. Ingrid Ruthig. Erin: The Porcupine's Quill, 2021

Prose edit

  • The Sisters. (novel) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1974.
  • It's Easy to Fall on the Ice. (stories) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1977.
  • Junction. (novel) Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1982.
  • A House Full of Women. (stories) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1983.
  • Visitations. (stories) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1987.
  • The Invention of Truth. (memoir) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1991.
  • Away from Home. (memoir) Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1995.

Anthologies edit

  • The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, ed. A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1960.
  • Five New Brunswick Poets: Elizabeth Brewster, Fred Cogswell, Robert Gibbs, Alden Nowlan, Kay Smith, ed. Fred Cogswell. Fredericton: University of New Brunswick, 1962.
  • The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, second revised edition, ed. Ralph Gustafson. Penguin Books, 1958, 1967, 1975.
  • Selections from Major Canadian Writers, ed. Desmond Pacey. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974.
  • Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry By and About Women, ed. Greta Hofmann Nemiroff. Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1984.
  • Choice Atlantic : Writers of Newfoundland and the Maritimes, ed. Elaine Crocker, Eric Norman, and Michael Nowlan. St. John's: Breakwater, 1990.
  • A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry, ed. Susan McCaslin. Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 1998.
  • Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada, ed. Anne Compton, Laurence Hutchman, Ross Leckie, and Robin McGrath. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2002.
  • Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960, ed. Brian Trehearne. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010.

Musical settings of poems by Elizabeth Brewster edit

  • Winter flowers: for alto soloist, chorus & orchestra. Music by Nancy Telfer, c.1980, words by Elizabeth Brewster.
  • The Ballad of Princess Caraboo: a narrative of singular imposition for mezzo-soprano and piano. Music by Nancy Telfer, words by Elizabeth Brewster. F. Harris Music, c.1983.

Archives edit

There is an Elizabeth Brewster fond at Library and Archives Canada.[9] The archival reference is R931, former archival reference number MG30-D370.[10] The fond covers the date range 1935 (approximately) to 1997. It consists of 4.91 meters of textual records along with a number of graphic material and objects.

References edit

  1. ^ "College of Arts and Science . University of Saskatchewan". Arts.usask.ca. Retrieved 2013-02-07.
  2. ^ Noreen Shanahan. "Obituary: Elizabeth Brewster's journey of self-awareness led to prolific poetry career". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-02-07.
  3. ^ "Elizabeth Brewster 1922-2012 | the Fiddlehead".
  4. ^ "Brewster, Elizabeth (Winifred) 1922- | Encyclopedia.com".
  5. ^ "Archived Awards - Saskatchewan Book Awards".
  6. ^ "Eli Bornstein and Elizabeth Brewster to receive Saskatchewan Order of Merit".
  7. ^ "Past GGBooks winners and finalists".
  8. ^ "The Governor General announces new appointments to the Order of Canada".
  9. ^ "Elizabeth Brewster finding aid at Library and Archives Canada" (PDF). (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  10. ^ "Elizabeth Brewster fond description at Library and Archives Canada". from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved July 27, 2020.

Further reading edit

  • . University of Toronto Press. Archived from the original on March 5, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2006.
  • Pacey, Desmond (July 1973). "The Poetry of Elizabeth Brewster". Ariel. 4 (3): 58–69.
  • Gibbs, Robert (Autumn 1974). "Next Time from a Different Country". Canadian Literature. 62: 17–32.
  • Friewald, Bina Toledo (2009). "Tradition, Individual Talent, and 'a young woman /From Backwoods New Brunswick': Modernism and Elizabeth Brewster's (Auto)Poetics of the Subject". In Di Brandt; Barbara Godard (eds.). Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 97–123. ISBN 9781554586905.
  • Wilson, Jean (9 September 2014). "Elizabeth Brewster". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada.
  • Ruthig, Ingrid. Foreword to The Essential Elizabeth Brewster. Erin: the Porcupine's Quill, 2021.

External links edit

March 13, 2024
elizabeth, brewster, american, methodist, missionary, elizabeth, fisher, brewster, elizabeth, winifred, brewster, august, 1922, december, 2012, canadian, poet, author, academic, bornelizabeth, winifred, brewster, 1922, august, 1922chipman, brunswickdieddecembe. For the American Methodist missionary see Elizabeth Fisher Brewster Elizabeth Winifred Brewster CM SOM 26 August 1922 26 December 2012 1 was a Canadian poet author and academic 2 Elizabeth BrewsterBornElizabeth Winifred Brewster 1922 08 26 August 26 1922Chipman New BrunswickDiedDecember 26 2012 2012 12 26 aged 90 Saskatoon SaskatchewanLanguageEnglishNationalityCanadianAlma materUniversity of New BrunswickRadcliffe CollegeUniversity of TorontoIndiana University BloomingtonGenrePoetryNotable awardsOrder of Canada Saskatchewan Order of Merit Queen s Diamond Jubilee Medal Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected bibliography 2 1 Poetry 2 2 Prose 2 3 Anthologies 2 4 Musical settings of poems by Elizabeth Brewster 3 Archives 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksBiography editBorn in the logging village of Chipman New Brunswick Brewster was the youngest of Frederick John and Ethel May Day Brewster s five children The family was of limited means and although she was a physically frail child with a sporadic early education Brewster was a keen reader of any material that presented itself including literary classics and the Eatons catalogue 3 Her first poem submitted by her father and accepted by the Saint John Telegraph Journal was published when she was twelve years old After she graduated from high school in 1942 Brewster entered the University of New Brunswick on an entrance scholarship She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946 a Master of Arts from Harvard s Radcliffe College in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1947 then began her PhD at Indiana University before electing to travel to England on a Beaverbrook overseas scholarship to study at King s College London from 1949 to 1950 She later earned a Bachelor of Library Science from the University of Toronto then returned in 1957 to Indiana University Bloomington to complete her PhD on the work of English poet George Crabbe and graduated in 1962 She was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan where she taught literature and creative writing from 1972 until she retired in 1990 A founding member in 1945 of the Canadian literary journal The Fiddlehead 4 Brewster went on to publish over twenty collections of her poetry five books of fiction and two memoirs Over the course of her long career she was a recipient of the E J Pratt Award for poems from her second book Lillooet the Saskatchewan Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 an honorary doctorate from the University of New Brunswick the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry 5 a Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2008 6 and the Queen s Diamond Jubilee Medal and several other honours Her poetry collection Footnotes to the Book of Job was shortlisted for the 1996 Governor General s Award 7 and in 2001 she was inducted as a Member 8 into the Order of Canada Canada s highest civilian honour Selected bibliography editPoetry edit East Coast Toronto Ryerson Press 1951 Lillooet with art by JEH MacDonald and Thoreau MacDonald Toronto Ryerson Press 1954 Roads and Other Poems Toronto Ryerson Press 1957 Passage of Summer Selected Poems Toronto Ryerson Press 1969 Sunrise North Toronto Clarke Irwin amp Company 1972 In Search of Eros Toronto Clarke Irwin 1974 Sometimes I Think of Moving Ottawa Oberon Press 1977 The Way Home Ottawa Oberon Press 1982 Digging In Ottawa Oberon Press 1982 Selected Poems 1944 1977 amp 1977 1984 2 volumes Ottawa Oberon Press 1985 Entertaining Angels Ottawa Oberon Press 1988 Spring Again Ottawa Oberon Press 1990 Finalist for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award Wheel of Change Ottawa Oberon Press 1993 Footnotes to the Book of Job Ottawa Oberon Press 1995 Finalist for the 1996 Governor General s Award Garden of Sculpture Ottawa Oberon Press 1998 Burning Bush Ottawa Oberon Press 2000 Jacob s Dream Ottawa Oberon Press 2002 Winner of the 2003 Saskatchewan Book Award Collected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster 1 Ottawa Oberon Press 2003 Collected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster 2 Ottawa Oberon Press 2004 Bright Centre Ottawa Oberon Press 2005 Time and Seasons Ottawa Oberon Press 2009 The Essential Elizabeth Brewster poems ed Ingrid Ruthig Erin The Porcupine s Quill 2021Prose edit The Sisters novel Ottawa Oberon Press 1974 It s Easy to Fall on the Ice stories Ottawa Oberon Press 1977 Junction novel Windsor Black Moss Press 1982 A House Full of Women stories Ottawa Oberon Press 1983 Visitations stories Ottawa Oberon Press 1987 The Invention of Truth memoir Ottawa Oberon Press 1991 Away from Home memoir Ottawa Oberon Press 1995 Anthologies edit The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse ed A J M Smith Toronto Oxford University Press 1960 Five New Brunswick Poets Elizabeth Brewster Fred Cogswell Robert Gibbs Alden Nowlan Kay Smith ed Fred Cogswell Fredericton University of New Brunswick 1962 The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse second revised edition ed Ralph Gustafson Penguin Books 1958 1967 1975 Selections from Major Canadian Writers ed Desmond Pacey Toronto McGraw Hill Ryerson 1974 Celebrating Canadian Women Prose and Poetry By and About Women ed Greta Hofmann Nemiroff Markham Fitzhenry amp Whiteside 1984 Choice Atlantic Writers of Newfoundland and the Maritimes ed Elaine Crocker Eric Norman and Michael Nowlan St John s Breakwater 1990 A Matter of Spirit Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry ed Susan McCaslin Victoria Ekstasis Editions 1998 Coastlines The Poetry of Atlantic Canada ed Anne Compton Laurence Hutchman Ross Leckie and Robin McGrath Fredericton Goose Lane Editions 2002 Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960 ed Brian Trehearne Toronto McClelland amp Stewart 2010 Musical settings of poems by Elizabeth Brewster edit Winter flowers for alto soloist chorus amp orchestra Music by Nancy Telfer c 1980 words by Elizabeth Brewster The Ballad of Princess Caraboo a narrative of singular imposition for mezzo soprano and piano Music by Nancy Telfer words by Elizabeth Brewster F Harris Music c 1983 Archives editThere is an Elizabeth Brewster fond at Library and Archives Canada 9 The archival reference is R931 former archival reference number MG30 D370 10 The fond covers the date range 1935 approximately to 1997 It consists of 4 91 meters of textual records along with a number of graphic material and objects References edit College of Arts and Science University of Saskatchewan Arts usask ca Retrieved 2013 02 07 Noreen Shanahan Obituary Elizabeth Brewster s journey of self awareness led to prolific poetry career The Globe and Mail Retrieved 2013 02 07 Elizabeth Brewster 1922 2012 the Fiddlehead Brewster Elizabeth Winifred 1922 Encyclopedia com Archived Awards Saskatchewan Book Awards Eli Bornstein and Elizabeth Brewster to receive Saskatchewan Order of Merit Past GGBooks winners and finalists The Governor General announces new appointments to the Order of Canada Elizabeth Brewster finding aid at Library and Archives Canada PDF Archived PDF from the original on 2020 07 27 Retrieved July 27 2020 Elizabeth Brewster fond description at Library and Archives Canada Archived from the original on 2020 07 27 Retrieved July 27 2020 Further reading edit Canadian Who s Who 1997 entry University of Toronto Press Archived from the original on March 5 2008 Retrieved June 9 2006 Pacey Desmond July 1973 The Poetry of Elizabeth Brewster Ariel 4 3 58 69 Gibbs Robert Autumn 1974 Next Time from a Different Country Canadian Literature 62 17 32 Friewald Bina Toledo 2009 Tradition Individual Talent and a young woman From Backwoods New Brunswick Modernism and Elizabeth Brewster s Auto Poetics of the Subject In Di Brandt Barbara Godard eds Wider Boundaries of Daring The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women s Poetry Wilfrid Laurier University Press pp 97 123 ISBN 9781554586905 Wilson Jean 9 September 2014 Elizabeth Brewster The Canadian Encyclopedia Historica Canada Ruthig Ingrid Foreword to The Essential Elizabeth Brewster Erin the Porcupine s Quill 2021 External links editArchives of Elizabeth Brewster Elizabeth Brewster fonds R931 are held at Library and Archives Canada Retrieved from https en 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