| Description |
1 online resource (353 pages) |
| Contents |
Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: 'This is my own, my native land' -- Chapter 1. Alias 'Sam Slick' -- Chapter 2. Yankee Heritage -- Chapter 3. King's College and Marriage -- Chapter 4. Annapolis Royal and the General Description -- Chapter 5. The Legislature and the 'Club' -- Chapter 6. Historian and Judge -- Chapter 7. Clifton and The Clockmaker -- Chapter 8. A Tradition of Yankee Humour -- Chapter 9. Career in Crisis -- Part Two: A Literary Career -- Chapter 10. The Greatest Lion in London -- Chapter 11. Moving in the Best of Circles -- Chapter 12. Bubbles of Canada and Reply to the Earl of Durham -- Chapter 13. Microcosms: Clifton and the Great Western -- Chapter 14. More Clockmaking and More New Relations -- Chapter 15. The Death of Louisa -- Chapter 16. A Three-Hundred-Year-Old Tory Returned to Life -- Chapter 17. The Death of Tom Jr -- Chapter 18. Stepping Out of the Frame -- Chapter 19. Sam Slick Rides Again -- Chapter 20. End of an Era -- Part Three: Sam Slick in England -- Chapter 21. A New Career -- Chapter 22. A Hectic Social Life -- Chapter 23. Member of Parliament for Launceston -- Chapter 24. The Clash with Gladstone -- Chapter 25. The Canada Land and Emigration Company -- Chapter 26. Launceston, Parliament, and Isleworth -- Chapter 27. The Banting System -- Chapter 28. The Last of the Tories -- Appendix: Haliburton Family Tree -- Notes -- Works by Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
| Summary |
Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865.
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Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865 fast |
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Judges -- Nova Scotia -- Biography
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Politicians -- Nova Scotia -- Biography
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Lawyers -- Nova Scotia -- Biography
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Judges
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Lawyers
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Politicians
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Nova Scotia -- Biography
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Nova Scotia
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442627352 |
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1442627352 |
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