Stead, Robert J. C., 1880-1959

LC control no.	n 84083905
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR9199.3.S76
Personal name heading	Stead, Robert J. C., 1880-1959 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Stead, Robert, 1880-1959 Stead, Robert James Campbell, 1880-1959
Associated country	Canada
Located	Cartwright (Man.) Prairie Provinces
Birth date	1880-09-04
Death date	1959-06-26
Place of birth	Middleville (Ont.)
Place of death	Ottawa (Ont.)
Field of activity	Fiction
Profession or occupation	Journalists Authors
Found in	His Dry water, 1983: t.p. (Robert Stead) Can. CIP (Stead, Robert J. C., 1880-1959) LC data base, 5-23-84 (hdg.: Stead, Robert James Campbell, 1880-1959) Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, 1997: Stead, Robert J. C. (Robert James Campbell Stead; born in Middleville, Ontario, and grew up in Cartwright, Manitoba; attended Winnipeg Business College; from 1898 to 1909 published and edited a local weekly in Cartwright; by 1912 was in Calgary; in 1919 moved to Ottawa; active in the Canadian authors' association from its inception, and became its president in 1923) Canadian Encyclopedia online, viewed 20 June 2016: Robert James Campbell Stead (Robert James Campbell Stead, writer, civil servant, b. at Middleville, Ont. 4 Sept 1880, d. at Ottawa 26 June 1959; raised in Manitoba, Stead began his writing career as a journalist and poet but he is best known for his novels; in his early poetry, he mixed with styles of Service and Kipling to produce a virulently nationalist concept of Canada and Canadians, which was continued when he turned to novels in 1914, and wartime tensions seemed to exacerbate his prejudices, though his postwar novels are calmer, more tolerant and less romantic than his first work, as his style shifted from romanticism towards realism; although it retained some romantic elements, his fiction exemplified the tendency towards "prairie realism" in Canadian literature)