The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939
The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939: Volume 2
Edited by Robert D. Denham
Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye
Volume: 2
Copyright Date: 1996
Published by: University of Toronto Press
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442681040
Pages: 505
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442681040
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The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939
Book Description:

This collection of 266 letters, cards, and telegrams that Helen Kemp and Northrop Frye wrote to each other forms a compelling narrative of their early relationship. The letters reveal Frye?s early talent as a writer.

eISBN: 978-1-4426-8104-0
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-vi)
  3. Abbreviations
    Abbreviations (pp. vii-xii)
  4. 1936–1937
    1936–1937 (pp. 507-768)

    From the time of Kemp’s return from England in October of 1935 until August of 1936, no letters pass between the two correspondents. During these ten months Kemp seems to have been renting a flat, having moved out of her parents’ home, and Frye was living, at least officially, in the Emmanuel College residences. Ayre traces what little we know about their lives during this period. Kemp busied herself with the educational projects of the art gallery, arranging lectures and study groups, and Frye, having set aside his Blake thesis, threw himself into his teaching, assisted E.J. Pratt in reviewing...

  5. [Illustrations]
    [Illustrations] (pp. None)
  6. 1938–1939
    1938–1939 (pp. 769-902)

    Before the final group of letters there is a fourteen-month break in the correspondence, and, once again, the details of the Fryes’ lives during this period are sketchy. Frye had told Chancellor Wallace, as indeed he and Kemp had told a host of others, that they were to be married, and exactly a month after he left Toronto for Gordon Bay, they returned to Toronto, where, on 24 August 1937, classmate Arthur Cragg performed the ceremony in the Emmanuel College chapel. When Frye sends news to Elizabeth Fraser of the impending nuptials, she replies curtly, “Good. But see that your...

  7. [Illustrations]
    [Illustrations] (pp. None)
  8. Appendix: Directory of People Mentioned in the Correspondence
    Appendix: Directory of People Mentioned in the Correspondence (pp. 903-940)
  9. Index
    Index (pp. 941-979)
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