Gail Edwards
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Academic Introduction
Ph.D., Educational Studies (University of British Columbia)
Master of Library Science (University of British Columbia)
MA in the History of Art (Rosary College, Florence, Italy)
Diploma in the History of Art (University of British Columbia)
BA in Medieval Studies (University of British Columbia)
Gail Edwards has published on the history of Anglican and Methodist missionary activity in British Columbia. Her current research draws on the intersecting histories of social studies education, children’s book publishing, and public library services to explore the ways that Canadian children’s print culture in the postwar period reflected complex and conflicted ideas about the relationship between Indigenous peoples, nature, modernity and national identity.
Recent Citations for Gail Edwards
- Picturing Canada: The changing face of children's book illustration in Canada (Lecture)
- Private school
- Children’s authors and their markets
- Publishing for children and students: Publishing for children
- 'The picturesqueness of his accent and speech': Methodist missionary narratives and William Henry Pierce's autobiography
- William Henry Collison
- Elizabeth Cleaver, William Toye, and Oxford University Press: Creating the Canadian picturebook
- Towards a history of design in Canadian children's illustrated books
- Anglican Church; United Church; Presbyterian Church; Methodist Church
- Dayal Kaur Khalsa: The art of remembering
