Pauline Johnson

Pauline Johnson was a poet and a performer, a woman who was born to a Native American father and an English mother, and who in the late 19th century helped define Canadian literature.

She was a beautiful and graceful performer, dignified, with an “emotional delivery at a time when sentimentality and melodrama were popular on the stage.”

“In late 1892 Johnson began to appear in her trademark costume: native dress for the first half of her program and a drawing-room gown for the second.”

It was at this time that “Pauline…emerged, not as the serious poet she longed all her life to be, but as a popular performer of her own material.”

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