Description: Dan Azoulay has produced the first full-length study of Canadian romance in the years 1900 to 1930, a period that witnessed dramatic changes, including massive immigration, rapid urbanization and industrialization, western settlement, a world war that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of young Canadians, and a virtual revolution in morals and manners.
Brief description: Dan Azoulay has taught in the Department of History at McMaster University. He is the author of Only the Lonely: Finding Romance in the Pages of Canada's Western Home Monthly, 1905-1924, as well as numerous articles on the history of the CCF.
Review Quotes:
A fascinating look into Canadians' love lives in the era when arranged marriages had mostly been discarded as relics of the patriarchal past, romantic courtship between two individuals was the breeding ground for marriage, making romance a serious business.
--Elizabeth Abbott, Literary Review of Canada