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Julia
A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her extraordinary life from Montreal to Vancouver, from the Rocky Mountains to England, and from the mining towns of BC’s Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views of women’s roles and voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada’s relationship to Great Britain and the USA are an illuminating contrast with the values of her contemporaries, and with society today.
Julia Henshaw was British but lived in the Vancouver area from 1890 until her death in 1937. Besides her novels set in England and in BC, she wrote a very popular book on Rocky Mountain Wildflowers in 1906 as well as many articles on camping and mountaineering in the Banff and Yoho areas. She lectured all over North America and England on these subjects. During the First World War, she worked to raise funds for military hospitals and commanded Red Cross units that evacuated civilians during terrible fighting in 1918 – one hundred years ago this spring and a reminder of the extraordinary role women played in that horrific conflict.
This is artist Michael Kluckner’s third graphic novel following Toshiko and 2050: A Post Apocalyptic Murder Mystery.
Julia Henshaw was British but lived in the Vancouver area from 1890 until her death in 1937. Besides her novels set in England and in BC, she wrote a very popular book on Rocky Mountain Wildflowers in 1906 as well as many articles on camping and mountaineering in the Banff and Yoho areas. She lectured all over North America and England on these subjects. During the First World War, she worked to raise funds for military hospitals and commanded Red Cross units that evacuated civilians during terrible fighting in 1918 – one hundred years ago this spring and a reminder of the extraordinary role women played in that horrific conflict.
This is artist Michael Kluckner’s third graphic novel following Toshiko and 2050: A Post Apocalyptic Murder Mystery.
132 pages, Paperback
Published April 25, 2018
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