Laura Goodman Salverson

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Laura Goodman Salverson
Library and Archives Canada

Laura Goodman Salverson was born 9 December 1890 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of Icelandic immigrants. Faced with poverty for most of her life, Salverson worked during the day and wrote at night. In addition to her writing, she edited Icelandic Canadian Magazine. Salverson died 13 July 1970.


Books by Laura G. Salverson

1923
The Viking Heart
1925
Wayside Gleams
1925
When Sparrows Fall
1927
Lord of the Silver Dragon: A Romance of Leif the Lucky
1928
Johan Lind (serialized in Western Home Monthly)
1933
The Dove
1937
The Dark Weaver: Against the Sombre Background of the Old Generations Flame the Scarlet Banners of the New
1938
Black Lace
1939
Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter
1954
Immortal Rock: The Saga of the Kensington Stone
 
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Awards


Articles & Essays

‘The Confessional Revisited: Laura Salverson's Canadian Work’
by Terrence L. Craig, Studies in Canadian Literature, 1985

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Added 12 February 2006.
Updated 07 January 2012.