Writings by Western Icelandic women
By: edited and translated by Kirsten Wolf.
Contributors: Wolf, Kirsten, 1959-
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Winnipeg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Icelandic literature -- Canada -- Women authors.; Canadian literature -- Women authors.; Icelandic literature -- Translations into English.
Description: There are two Icelands. One is the island in the North Sea, settled since Viking times. The other is "Western Iceland," the communities throughout North America, settled by Icelanders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and which still maintain strong ties to the "old country.".

This collection of short stories and poems spans seventy-five years of writing by Western Icelandic women writers. It includes translated work by little-known early writers, such as Undina, who wrote before the turn of the century, as well as work written in English by prominent writers such as Laura Goodman Salverson, twice a winner of the Governor-General's Award. These short stories and poems reflect a range of experiences common to immigrant women from many cultures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"This collection of short stories and poems by Western Icelandic women writers spans almost a century of writing, from the emigration and settlement of Icelanders in the early 1870s to their assimilation into North American culture in the 1950s and 1960s, and includes works by both Icelandic-writing (in translation) and English-writing authors" --Intro.