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Jennifer S. H. Brown taught history at the University of Winnipeg for twenty-eight years and held a Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal history from 2004 to 2011. She served as director of the Centre for Rupert's Land Studies, which focuses on Aboriginal peoples and the fur trade of the Hudson Bay afficher plus watershed, from 1996 to 2010. She is the editor of the Rupert's Land Record Society documentary series, which publishes original materials on Aboriginal and fur trade history. She now resides in Denver, Colorado, where she continues her scholarly work afficher moins

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A Rare and True Treasure

So much more than a book of poetry, this volume chronicles the family and its journey through life. Nellie Brown is but one of the many contributors to the catalog assembled by Jennifer S.H. Brown of her family’s writings. Truly a treasure for anyone who values not only this life’s journey but the experiences and perspectives of generations past.

In keeping with the theme of its title, poems seem to grow through the natural world; its seasons, its creatures, and the experiences of people, families, where they lived, and how they lived. Every theme of the human condition is expressed fluently in verses. The authenticity is striking as letters tell the story that ties the poems together. It all begins with Joshua Brown in 1875 as a family project in a time before television and computers. He wrote, his sons and daughters wrote, and later nearly 200 pages were handed down to the next generation.

Finally, Brown decided to awaken the beauty and share it with the world. There’s nothing else like it. “Nellie Brown’s Garden of Verses is a rare and true treasure.
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