| Flint and Feather Contributor(s): Johnson, E. Pauline (Author) |
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ISBN: 1976243939 ISBN-13: 9781976243936 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.47 lbs) 154 pages |
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| Publisher Description: I cannot say how deeply it touched me to learn that Pauline Johnson expressed a wish on her death-bed that I, living here in the mother country all these miles away, should write something about her. I was not altogether surprised, however, for her letters to me had long ago shed a golden light upon her peculiar character. She had made herself believe, quite erroneously, that she was largely indebted to me for her success in the literary world. The letters I had from her glowed with this noble passion: the delusion about her indebtedness to me, in spite of all I could say, never left her. She continued to foster and cherish this delusion. Gratitude indeed was with her not a sentiment merely, as with most of us, but a veritable passion. And when we consider how rare a human trait true gratitude is-the one particular characteristic in which the lower animals put us to shame-it can easily be imagined how I was touched to find that this beautiful and grand Canadian girl remained down to the very last moment of her life the impersonation of that most precious of all virtues. I have seen much of my fellow men and women, and I never knew but two other people who displayed gratitude as a passion-indulged in it, I might say, as a luxury-and they were both poets. I can give no higher praise to the "irritable genus." On this account Pauline Johnson will always figure in my memory as one of the noblest minded of the human race. |