Mary Chapman

Bio

Mary Chapman is the author of Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism and the editor of Becoming Sui Sin Far. She is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia and director of the Winnifred Eaton Archive , which is digitizing the complete oeuvre of Edith Eaton’s sister Winnifred who published bestselling novels under the pen-name “Onoto Watanna.”

Contributions

Playing in the Modern Mediascape: A Pseudonymous Travelogue by Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton

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Chinese North American author Edith Eaton, writing as “Sui Sin Far,” is one of the most transnational of periodical writers publishing at the turn of the twentieth century (fig. 1). She contributed over 220 texts of diverse genres, themes, styles, and narrative voices, to over fifty Canadian, US, and Jamaican magazines and newspapers between the late 1880s and her death in 1914, although contemporary scholarship acknowledges only about fifty mostly Chinatown-themed stories published in her book...

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