About the Book Thirty Years of Storytelling gathers together fourteen works of short fiction penned by Ethelwyn Wetherald (1857-1940), a prolific writer who made her mark in the world of Canadian letters during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Published originally in Canadian and American newspapers and magazines between 1880 and 1912, the stories in this volume reveal Wetherald as a writer who approached short fiction as a significant form of social reflection, one which allowed her to interrogate people and circumstances with both humour and compassion. In her stories, Wetherald takes up such wide-ranging topics as the social expectations surrounding women, Christian behaviour and brotherhood, competing notions of diet and health, psychic phenomena, and the persuasive appeal of advertising. Love in various forms, and its lighter and darker aspects, emerges as an abiding theme for Wetherald. A versatile writer, Ethelwyn Wetherald's literary accomplishments extended to poetry and journalism. The Appendix to this volume provides a sampling of her journalistic work, a field of writing in which she explored many of the concerns she took up in her short fiction. This edition of Wetherald's short fiction also includes annotations for the short stories and the journalism and an Introduction by Janet B. Friskney, which provides an overview of the author's life and work. The volume is completed by a Selected Bibliography compiled by Helgi Kernaghan, the researcher who has, over the course of many years, painstakingly searched out Wetherald's bibliographic record. The Selected Bibliography contains both primary and secondary sources related to Wetherald.

About the Authors Ethelwyn Wetherald
A versatile writer Ethelwyn Wetherald's literary accomplishments extended to poetry and journalism. The Appendix to this volume provides a sampling of her journalistic work, a field of writing in which she explored many of the concerns she took up in her short fiction. This edition of Wetherald's short fiction also includes annotations for the short stories and the journalism and an Introduction by Janet B. Friskney, which provides an overview of the author's life and work. The volume is completed by a Selected Biography compiled by Helgi Kernaghan, the researcher who has, over the course of many years, painstakingly searched out Weatherald's bibliographic record, The selected Bibliography contains both primary and secondary sources related to Wetherald.

Dr. Janet B. Friskney
A specialist in Canadian publishing history, Dr. Janet B. Friskney, is the author of New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978. Her publication credits include articles on the Methodist Book and Publishing House of Toronto, nineteenth-century Bible and tract society activity in Canada, and the history of publishing for the blind in Canada. She served as Associate Editor to Volume 3 of the History of the Book in Canada.