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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Male : Poet, Novelist & Children's Writer, esp of animal stories. Married Mary Fenety in 1880, and Joan Montgomery 1943. He wrote nearly 70 books. He moved to England in 1911 and served as an army officer in WW1, despite being in his mid-fifties. He returned to Canada in 1925
Nationality : Canadian Place of Birth : Douglas, New Brunswick

Date of Birth : 1860 Date of Death : 1943 Age : 83

Other Work : Teacher and Professor at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia 1885-95

Education : University of New Brunswick
VERSE
Orion and Other Poems
(1880)
Later Poems
(1881 & 1882)
In Divers Tones
(1886)
(Ed) Poems of Wild Life (1888)
Autochthon
(1889)
Songs of the Common Day, and Ave : An Ode for the Shelley Centenary
(1893)
The Book of the Native
(1896)
New York Nocturnes and Other Poems
(1898)
(Ed) Northland Lyrics by W C Roberts, T Roberts & E R McDonald (1899)
Poems
(1901)
The Book of the Rose
(1903)
Poems
(1907)
New Poems
(1919 Constable)
The Sweet o' the Year and Other Poems
(1925)
The Vagrant of Time
(1927)
Be Quiet Wind : Unsaid
(1929)
The Iceberg and Other Poems
(1934)
Selected Poems
(1936)
Twilight Over Shaugamauk and Three Other Poems
(1937)
Canada Speaks of Britain and Other Poems of the War
(1941)
Selected Poems
(1956) - Edited by Desmond Pacey

FICTION
1894-1900
The Raid from Beausejour, and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage
(1894)
REBE DARE'S SHAD BOAT : A TALE OF THE TIDE COUNTRY
(1895)
AROUND THE CAMPFIRE
(1896)
THE FORGE IN THE FOREST : BEING THE NARRATIVE OF THE ARCADIAN RANGER, JEAN DE MER
(1896)
Earth's Enigmas : A Book of Animal and Nature Life
(1896)
(1903 Page) - Charles Livingston Bull
A Sister to Evangeline : Being the Story of Yvonne de Lamourie
(1898)
The Heart of the Ancient Wood
(1900)
By the Marshes of Minas
(1900)- ss

1901-1910
The Kindred of the Wild : A Book of Animal Life
(1902)
Barbara Ladd
(1902)
The Prisoner of Mademoiselle : A Love Story
(1904)
The Watchers of the Trails : A Book of Animal Life
(1904)
Red Fox : The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and His Final Triumph over
the Enemies of His Kind
(1905) (1974 Longman) - John Schoenherr
The Heart that Knows
(1906)
The Haunters of the Silences : A Book of Animal Life
(1907)
In the Deep of the Snow
(1907)
The Red Oxen of Bonval
(1908) - ss
The House in the Water : A Book of Animal Life
(1908)
The Backwoodsmen
(1909)
Kings in Exile
(1909)
Neighbours Unknown
(nd.1910 Ward Lock) - Paul Bransom

1911-1920
More Kindred of the Wild
(1911)
Babes of the Wild
(1912)
The Feet of the Furtive
(1912)
A Balkan Prince
(1913)
Cock Crow
(1913) - ss
Hoof and Claw
(1913)
The Secret Trails
(1916)
The Ledge on Bald Face
(1918)
In the Morning of Time
(1919) - ss

After 1921
Wisdom of the Wilderness
(1922)
They Who Walk in the Wild
(1924)
Eyes of the Wilderness
(1933)
Further Animal Stories
(1935)
Thirteen Bears
(1947)
Forest Folk
(1949)
The Last Barrier and Other Stories
(1958)
King of Beasts and Other Stories
(1967)

NON-FICTION
The Canadian Guide-Book : A Tourist's and Sportsman's Guide to Eastern
Canada and Newfoundland
(1892)
The Land of Evangeline and the Gateways Thither
(1894)
A History of Canada for High schools and Academies
(1897)
(Ed) Alastor and Adonais by Percy Shelley (1902)
Discoveries and Explorations in the Century
(1904)
Canada in Flanders : Vol 3
(1918)
(Ed) A Standard Dictionary of Canadian Biography (1934-8) - 2 vols. with A L Tunnell
(Ed) The Canadian Who's Who - Vols 2 & 3 (1936-9) - with A L Tunnell
(Ed) Flying Colours - An Anthology (1942)

READING
Elsie M Pomeroy : Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
(1943)
William J Keith : Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
(1969)

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