Cry From An Indian Wife, A by JOHNSON, E. Pauline

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson,. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 29, 2012.In 1892 the opportunity of a lifetime came to this young versifier, when Frank Yeigh, the president of the Young Liberals' Club, of Toronto, conceived the idea of having an evening of Canadian literature, at which all available Canadian authors should be guests and read from their own works.Among the authors present on this occasion was Pauline Johnson, who contributed to the programme one of her compositions, entitled "A Cry from an Indian Wife"; and when she recited without text this much-discussed poem, which shows the Indian's side of the North-West Rebellion, she was greeted with tremendous applause from an audience which represented the best of Toronto's art, literature and culture. She was the only one on the programme who received an encore, and to this she replied with one of her favourite canoeing poems.The following mor

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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by CC
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by DL
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by FS
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by JCM
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by KG
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by LAH
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by LLW
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by LRS
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by PY
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by REF
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A Cry From an Indian Wife - Read by RN
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