| Summary: | This fonds consists of many of the writings of Georgiana Cooper, a Newfoundland born writer and artist. - She wrote most of her poems in a simple black notebook and her short stories in a green one. Cooper - drew on the things most familiar to her and used them in her writings. Many of Cooper's stories were - tragic; accidental deaths, sailors lost at sea, sickness and poverty were often present in the same story. - Depicting the sometimes cruel and unpredictable nature of life in Newfoundland is a constant throughout - her poems and short stories. Also present is a sense of Cooper's love for Newfoundland, particularly, the - abandoned community of Inglewood Forest, Trinity Bay, the place of her birth - -
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