Introduction
This bibliography resource guide will help you find more information at UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on rural Newfoundland that would complement your reading of Michael Crummey’s Galore. The guide draws mainly on the collection in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at Koerner Library, as well as other materials found in the other Divisions of the UBC Library.
Curiosity
In 1812, a 12 year-old girl dug the skeleton of what she thought was a dragon out of the cliff on an English beach. Mary Anning was poor and barely literate. Her astonishing find–– a thirty-foot Ichthyosaur from the Jurassic Period—turned the science of the day upside down and set the course of Mary’s life.
Set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, 40 years before Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Curiosity tells the story of “the fossil girl” and her relationship with the gentry who stream to Lyme Regis in the wake of her fossil find. It’s a foray into an alien culture for Mary, who has only her own steady sense of self to guide her.
Henry de la Beche is the heir to a sugar plantation and has been shaped in unexpected ways by his childhood in Jamaica. In Lyme Regis he meets the solitary, determined, forthright Mary, and finds something his own experience has denied him. In the years when no one in England is talking about evolution, Mary Anning and Henry De la Beche find social convention, science, and religion inadequate to their experience and grope their way towards a private understanding.
Facilitator Bio
Rhea Tregebov, Associate Professor, Creative Writing Program
Rhea Tregebov is the author of seven volumes of poetry: Remembering History, No One We Know, The Proving Grounds, Mapping the Chaos, The Strength of Materials, (alive): Selected and new poems and, most recently All Souls’ (2012, Signal Editions, Véhicule Press). Her poetry has received the Pat Lowther Award, the Malahat Review Long Poem prize, Honorable Mention for the National Magazine Awards (poetry) and the Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry from Prairie Schooner. Her first novel, The Knife-Sharpener’s Bell, was published in 2009 from Coteau Press and is the recipient of the 2010 J.I. Segal Award for fiction, as well as being listed as a Top 100 Book for 2010 by The Globe and Mail. The Knife Sharpener’s Bell was also shortlisted for the 2012 Kobzar Prize and 2012 Manitoba Reads competition.
Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers, the anthology which she co-translated and edited, was published in March 2007 in Canada by Sumach Press and in March 2008 in the United States by The Feminist Press of CUNY. She has published translations of poetry from Spanish and French and has edited and/or co-translated translations of poetry, fiction and nonfiction from a variety of languages, including Finnish, Catalan and Bosnian.
Tregebov has also published five popular children’s picture books, including Sasha and the Wind, Sasha and the Wiggly Tooth, What-if Sara, The Extraordinary Ordinary Everything Room and the classic The Big Storm, which won the inaugural CNIB Tiny Torgi PrintBraille Book Award; young jurors who read braille chose their favourite PrintBraille book from a short list prepared by teachers and librarians. Illustrator Maryanne Kovalski was also nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for Illustration for The Big Storm. Tregebov’s picture books have been recommended in A Guide to Canadian Children’s Books as well CBC radio’s Children’s Literature Panel. She has twice toured for the Canadian Children’s Book Week, and her books have been recommended by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Her picture books have been translated into French and Danish.
She is also the editor of ten other anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction for a number of presses, most recently Naked in Academe: 50 Years of Creative Writing at UBC (2014). She studied at the University of Manitoba, Cornell, and at Boston University, where she earned a Master of Arts degree in English and American literature. Before being hired in January 2005 to teach at UBC, she taught creative writing for many years in the Continuing Education program at Ryerson University in Toronto. She also worked as a freelance editor of adult and young adult fiction as well as poetry.
Event Details
Meet and Greet
October 29, Thursday 2015 | 7:00-8:00pm
Discussion
November 19, Thursday 2015 | 7:00-9:00pm
Location
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
6163 University Boulevard – map
UBC’s Vancouver campus
Cost
$10 per person. Light refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP online before Tuesday, October 27, 2015.
Questions? Please contact Karolin Konig at 604-822-8939 or at karolin.konig@ubc.ca.
Please Note: Books will not be provided so please make arrangements to obtain a copy to read before the Book Discussion. Books are available at the UBC Bookstore.
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Search Strategies
With a rich and vast collection, UBC Library encompasses a number of books, videos, and other relevant resources on nineteenth-century science. The easiest way to find this material is to use the UBC Library Catalogue (www.library.ubc.ca). One recommended search strategy is to use Subject search option. From the catalogue option, select Subject from the drop-down menu, and enter any of the following headings:
Anning, Mary, 1799-1847–Fiction.
De La Beche, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855–Fiction.
Books by the Author at UBC Library
Curiosity by Joan Thomas. (2010). Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. [Available at Woodward Library – PS8639.H572 C87 2010]
The Opening Sky by Joan Thomas (2014). Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. [Available at Koerner library PS8639.H572 O64 2014]
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas (2008). Fredericton: Goose Land. [Available at Koerner Library PS8639.H575 R43 2008; Rare Books and Special Collections PS8639.H575 R43 2008]
Scholarly Resources at UBC Library
Livingstone, David N. and Charles W.J. Withers (eds.) Geographies of nineteenth-century science. (2011). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Available at Koerner Library – Q127.G4 G46 2011]
Weber, A.S. (ed.) Nineteenth century science: a selection of original texts. (2000). Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. [Available at Koerner Library – Q158 .N56 2000]
Willis, Martin. Mesmerists, monsters, and machines: science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century. (2006). Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. [Temporarily shelved at Koerner Library reserve collection (Floor 3) – PN3433.6 .W55 2006]
Research Guides
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Open Access Learning Resources
The 19th Century discovery of dinosaurs–Scientific American
Dinosaurs and Dragons–Strange Science
Dinosaurs of the Victorian Era–The UnMuseum of Unnatural Mystery