Please answer the following question: Facts: - language: english - resting place: little lake cemetery , peterborough - notableworks: '' , and other poems '' old spookses ' pass , malcolm 's katie - citizenship: british subject - death date: 12 february 1887 - birth date: 25 december 1846 - ethnicity: irish - nationality: canadian - image: isabella_valancy_crawford . jpg - death place: toronto , ontario - birth place: dublin , ireland - occupation: freelance writer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of isabella valancy crawford .
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isabella valancy crawford -lrb- 25 december 1846 -- 12 february 1887 -rrb- was an irish-born canadian writer and poet .she was one of the first canadians to make a living as a freelance writer .'' crawford is increasingly being viewed as canada 's first major poet . ''she is the author of '' malcolm 's katie , '' a poem that has achieved '' a central place in the canon of nineteenth-century canadian poetry . ''