The Metadata of A Digital Archive
These media represent the beginning of a cumulating body of research on the British Columbia poet Audrey Alexandra Brown, her participation in the construction of national identity in the early half of the twentieth century, and how that participation changed as a result of shifts in Canadian media on local and national levels. The two images were taken from the Audrey Alexandra Brown fonds held in the University of Victoria Special Collections. The first image is a collection of proofs taken at a studio in Nanaimo, B.C in 1935. The second is the scanned excerpt of a letter from Pelham Edgar, a critic in Toronto, to Brown. The 1939 letter reveals that Brown was asked to read poems on air but that the CBC found they "had not proper facilities in Victoria for a nation wide hook up." Edgar also writes that Brown's work had been recently published into German, suggesting that the print-based version of her poetry was receiving wider international attention. The material provides contextual information on the period through which Brown's poetry began to receive less attention from literary critics and the general public. Through further examination of Brown's archival material, I hope to assess the impact of shifts in media focus on the accessibility of Brown's poetry.
Struggling with the Fields
Lingering Questions
Struggling with the Fields
Lingering Questions
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