WORKS

POETRY

Songs of the Coast Dwellers. New York: Coward-McCann, 1930.

OTHER WORK

Pioneers of the Old Southwest: A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919.

Adventurers of Oregon: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade. New Haven: Yale Univiversity Press, 1920.

Roselle of the North. New York: Macmillan, 1927.

The Tiger who Walks Alone. New York: Macmillan, 1927.

Red Willows. New York: Coward-McCann, 1929.

Rob Roy. New York: Macmillan, 1934.

Beaver Kings and Cabins. New York: Macmillan, 1940.

CRITICISM

Barman, Jean. Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Barman, Jean. “‘Vancouver’s first playwright’: Constance Lindsay Skinner and The Birthright.” BC Studies (2003): 47.

Kinnear, Mary. “Creating Historical Memory: English-Canadian Women and the Work of History.” The Canadian Historical Review 80.1 (1999): 180-182.

Norman, Sherry. “Bibliography.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 35.3 (2003): 176.

Prang, Margaret. “Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier.” BC Studies (2004): 106-107.

Relke, Diana. “The Actualities of Experience: Constance Lindsay Skinner’s Indian Poems.” Atlantis 14.2 (1989): 10-20.

Relke, Diana. “Noble and Ignoble Savagery: Patriarchy and Primitivism in the Poetry of Constance Lindsay Skinner.” Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women’s Poetry. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1999. 95-138.

Welwood, Frances. Rev. of Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing on the Frontier, by Jean Barman. BC Historical News 37.1 (2004): 24.
AWARDS

The Constance Lindsay Skinner Prize is awarded annually from the Women’s National Book Association.
BIOGRAPHY
Constance Lindsay Skinner was born in 1877 in Quesnel, British Columbia. She spent much of her childhood in Vancouver, and in 1893, moved to California to live with an aunt. She moved to New York City in the early twentieth-century. Despite her American surroundings, Skinner often featured Canadian settings in her writing. She died in New York City in 1939.

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