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Eaton Reeve, Winnifred. Canadian Authors. Morning Albertan, 13 Feb 1924, p. 4. The Winnifred Eaton Archive, edited by Mary Chapman and Jean Lee Cole, v. 2.0, 03 February 2024, https://winnifredeatonarchive.org/CanadianAuthorsCarman1.html. Winnifred Eaton ArchiveCanadianAuthorsCarman1 Eaton Reeve, Winnifred. Canadian Authors. Morning Albertan, 13 Feb 1924, p. 4.

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 Added citation from bibliography.xml to sourceDesc using utilities/msdesc.xsl. Proof completed. Added person references for Bliss Carman and Douglas Durkin. Set status to published. Updated status. added Shaun transcription. Created shell from bibl file. Shaun Hunter Shaun Hunter

Shaun Hunter is the author of Calgary through the Eyes of Writers (Rocky Mountain Books, 2018) and consultant for an exhibition of the same name, featuring Winnifred Eaton, at the Lougheed House in Calgary. She is a collaborator on The Winnifred Eaton Archive

 Leean Wu Leean Wu

Leean is an Honours English language and literature student at the University of British Columbia and a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive. She was an undergraduate teaching assistant for the UBC Coordinated Arts Program for two years and a research assistant for the UBC Public Humanities Hub.

 Winnifred Eaton Winnifred Eaton

See the Biographical Timeline for biographical information on Winnifred Eaton.

 Joey Takeda Joey Takeda

Joey Takeda is the Technical Director of The Winnifred Eaton Archive and a Developer at Simon Fraser University’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL). He is a graduate of the M.A. program in English at the University of British Columbia where he specialized in Indigenous and diasporic literature, science and technology studies, and the digital humanities.

 Sydney Lines Sydney Lines

Sydney Lines is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of British Columbia and Project Manager of The Winnifred Eaton Archive. She is writing a dissertation on Winnifred Eaton and Laura Goodman Salverson.

 Mary Chapman Mary Chapman

Mary Chapman is the Director of The Winnifred Eaton Archive, a Professor of English, and Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub at University of British Columbia. She is the author of the award-winning monograph <ref target="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-noise-making-news-9780190634506">Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism</ref> (Oxford UP) and of numerous articles about American literature and women writers. She has also edited Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton (McGill-Queen’s UP) and published essays on the Eaton sisters in American Quarterly, MELUS, Legacy, Canadian Literature, and American Periodicals. Her current research project is a microhistory of the Eaton family. For more information, see http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/mchapman/.

Bliss Carman Bliss Carman

Canadian poet.

 Douglas Durkin Douglas Durkin

Canadian novelist.

 Albertan

Also known as the Calgary Albertan. First established as the Calgary Tribune in 1886. Would be called variations of the Albertan from 1899 until 1980. Had a variety of names until the newspaper was sold to the Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation and renamed the Calgary Sun in 1980.

 Canadian Authors (By Winnifred Eaton Reeve)

The Morning Albertan, February 13, 1924

Calgary has reason to be proud of the fact that the most successful of any of the Bliss Carman recitals in the western cities was the one on Friday evening in the Central Methodist church. About 1,500 people packed the church, and gave not only a splendid ovation to the Canadian poet, but followed his reading with the most rapt and delighted interest.

Before leaving the city Mr. Carman expressed his appreciation and gratitude for the fine reception accorded him in Calgary. He stated that it marked the peak of his tour, and that he was unlikely to forget the sunny city of the foothills. The poet will spend a couple of days in Banff before returning to Vancouver.

Douglas Durkin is the author of a new Canadian novel entitled The Magpie, which is causing heated discussion, especially in the city of Winnipeg. This despite the fact that the book has been banned by some of the critics of that city, who refuse to review it on the ground that it may hurt the sensibilities and feelings of Winnipeggers. Under the circumstances we propose to read and fully review said The Magpie.

Too many books are ignored or banned because of prejudice, while others are boosted and fulsomely praised out of all proportion to their merits. Not always are the methods employed for boosting a book ethical or legitimate. We know of a case where a certain new writer entered into an agreement with a critic to act as her agent. He revised her script, sold it to the publishers, and then proceeded to write most of her reviews and to influence other reviewers. One of these reviews, in fact, appeared in the Literary Digest, International Book Review, and as many critics are like the proverbial sheep, it was inevitable that a number of them fell into line and followed the lead of the man who was proclaiming his discovery as a work of genius, and for which he was receiving a slice of the author’s royalties.

This is not legitimate criticism. It is just as if an author were to write his own criticisms and reviews. It is not fair to other authors, who must send out their work and have it judged through the usual channels. From a financial viewpoint, of course, it may prove remunerative to the author who is not possessed with a fine sense of literary honor, unless, of course, discovery results, when an exposure and scandal are sure to follow.