| Author: Campbell, Roy.
Title: Frederick Philip Grove & his first Canadian Novel Settlers of the Marsh, 1925 [videorecording] / with Roy Campbell ; produced by Communication Systems for Inter-Universities North. --
Published: Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba, Communication Systems, [1994].
Description: 2 videocassettes (57:30 & 68:10 min.) ; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Annotation:
Tape 1. Professor Campbell interviews Archivist Dr. Richard Bennett about the Grove's papers which he terms "one of the stellar manuscript collections" housed in Archives & Special Collections. Roy Campbell displays some books in Grove's library (Thoreau, Emerson, Hardy, Conrad), and shows various manuscript drafts of Grove's first novel Settlers of the Marsh which was originally entitled Pioneers, and conceived in three parts. He draws particular attention to the ending differing from the published version of 1925 in the manuscript notebook, and shows several photographs of Grove and his family. --
Tape 2. Roy Campbell interviews librarian & Greve/Grove scholar Dr. Gaby Divay about Grove's earlier life as Greve, the events leading to his departure from Germany in 1909 (he allegedly committed suicide), and his farming experience in Kentucky with Else Endell (later the dadaist Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven) which is reflected in Settlers: the heroine Clara Vogel is an unflattering monument to Else, the virtuous protagonist Niels is a idealized reflection of Grove himself.
Local Note: "FYDE English 120." --
"Produced for Inter-Universities North by Communication Systems. Educational Support Services, University of Manitoba, 1994." -- Directed by Elmer Hywarren.
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