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LANGTON, Anne

Born
Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, England, 1804
Died
Toronto, Ontario, 1893
Biography synopsis
Born into a cultivated family that traveled through Europe when she was a young woman, Langton studied miniature painting in Paris. The family immigrated to Canada in 1833. During a visit to New York, Langton viewed an exhibition by “Native Artists” and then recorded New World scenes, including some similar to those painted by artists of the Hudson River school. Langton’s sketches and journals may be seen in the context of the enormous cultural changes at work in the world she had left behind. Her visual record is an extensive portfolio: early attempts done in Europe; exquisite miniatures capturing highlights of personality and epoch; on-the-spot drawings for backwoods views. (With sincere thanks to Barbara Williams.)
Media used
China painting
Graphite
Miniatures
Painting
Watercolour
File & Archive locations
Archives of Ontario
Fenelon Falls Museum, ON
City of Kawartha Lakes Archives & Records Management Services, ON
Toronto Reference Library, ON
Peterborough Public Library
Peterborough Museum & Archives, ON
University of Toronto Libraries, ON
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives, QC
Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
Trent University Archives, ON
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
"Art Records Our History." Sault Daily Star (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) 2 Aug. 1984
"Church Remembers Pioneer and Author." Anglican Journal 119.6 (Jun. 1993): 13
"Council Briefs: Langton Sketches to Stay in City." Lindsay Daily Post (Lindsay, Ontario) 21 Apr. 2003
"Historical Sketches On Display In Fenelon." Visitor (supplement of the Fenelon Falls Gazette, Ontario) 25 Jun. 1986
"Langton Lookout." Peterborough Examiner (Peterborough, Ontario) 3 Aug. 1990
Allodi, Mary. "Two Gentlewomen of Upper Canada." Rotunda 10 (Summer 1977)
Archives of Ontario. "Anne Langton: Gentlewoman, Pioneer Settler and Artist." http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/langton/index.aspx Queen's Printer for Ontario, 2005
Baker, Doris L. Anne Langton and Pioneering in Upper Canada. Toronto: Irwin, 1985
Beaudette, Mary Anne. "Winter Survival Stories from Hardy Pioneers." Kingston Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ontario) (22 Feb. 2003): 5
Cragg, Patti. "Anne Langton: A Gentlewoman's Life In The Rugged Canadian Wilderness." Fenelon Falls Gazette (Fenelon Falls, Ontario) 29 Jun. 1983: 5
Errington, Jane. "A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: The Journals, Letters, and Art of Anne Langton." Canadian Historical Review. 90.3 (Sept. 2009): 552-553
Farr, Dorothy and Luckyj, Natalie. From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1975
Floyd, Janet. "To Recover Those Once Lost and Now Forgotten: Anne Langton's Journal and Memoir." Writing the Pioneer Woman. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002
Floyd, Janet. Domestication, Domesticity and the Work of Butchery: Positioning the Writing of Colonial Housework. Women's History Review 11-3 (2002): 395-415
Gossage, Carolyn. Forgotten Graces: Travel Sketchbooks of a Victoria Gentlewoman. Unionville: Varley Art Gallery of Markham, 2006
Grech, Caroline. "Art Collection to Stay in City for Now." Lindsay Daily Post (Lindsay, Ontario) 10 Apr. 2003
Guillet, Edwin Clarence. Early Life in Canada. Toronto: Ontario Publishing Company, 1933
Guillet, Edwin Clarence. Pioneer Arts and Crafts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968
Guillet, Edwin Clarence. The Valley of the Trent. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1957
Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
Kear, Celine. "Canada's First Literary Ladies." Beaver 80.1 (Feb-Mar. 2002): 15-20
Korte, Barbara. "Ladies in der Wildniss: the self-image of Canadian Pioneer Women as Represented in 19th Century Autobiographical Writing." Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien. 12.2 (1992): 7-27
Krueger, Lesley. "Home and Away: Canadian travel writing looks both outside and in, embracing stories, poetry, memoirs." Quill and Quire 62.2 (Feb. 1996): 29
Langton, Thomas. Letters of Thomas Langton to Mrs. Thomas Hornby, 1815-1818. Manchester, England: J. E. Cornish, 1900
Light, Beth and Alison Prentice, eds. Pioneer and Gentlewomen of British North America 1713-1867. Toronto: New Houston Press, 1980
MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009.
Mattisson, Jane. "The Journey Through Selfhood in The Journals of Mary O'Brien 1828-1838 and A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: The Journals of Anne Langton." Prose Studies 25.2 (2002): 51-78
McKendry, Blake. A to Z of Canadian Art: Artists and Art Terms. Kingston: B. McKendry, 1997
McKendry, Blake. Dictionary of Folk Artists in Canada: From the 17th Century to the Present. Elginburg: Blake McKendry, 1988
McKenzie, Ruth. "Fanny Amelia Bayfield (Wright)." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Ottawa: Libraries and Archives Canada, 2008
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McLennan, Marina. "From The Reeve's Desk - The Anne Langton Collection." Fenelon Falls Gazette (Fenelon Falls, Ontario) 13 Apr. 1983: 3
McLennan, Marina. "From the Reeves Desk - 'Bi-Centennial 1984.'" Fenelon Falls Gazette (Fenelon Falls, Ontario) 29 Feb. 1984
Petteys, Chris, et al. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
Smith, Helen. "A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: The Journals, Letters, and Art of Anne Langton." Ontario History. 102.2 (Autumn 2009): 258-260
Smith, Helen and Lisa Sullivan. "'Now that I Know How to Manage': Work and Identity in the Journals of Anne Langton." Ontario History 87.3 (Sep. 1995): 253-269
Steffler, Margaret and Neil. "If We Would Read It Aright: Traill's 'Ladder to Heaven'." Journal of Canadian Studies 38.3 (Fall 2004): 123-152
Thom, Molly. The Bush-Ladies in Their Own Words: Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Anne Langton, Anna Jameson. Victoria: Scirocco Drama, 2000
Thomas, Clara. "Anne Langton." Canadian Writers Before 1890. Detroit, Michigan: Thomson Gale, 1990
Turner, Jill. "New Fenelon Public School Honours Langton Name." North Kawartha Times (Fenelon Falls, ON) 8 May 1991
Wagenaar, Norm. "Langston Sketches Stay Here." Fenelon Falls Gazette (Fenelon Falls, Ontario) 4 Feb. 2003
White, Ariel. "Langton Sketches Could Leave City." Fenelon Falls Gazette (Fenelon Falls, Ontario) (28 Jan. 2003): 1
Williams, Barbara. A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: The Journals, Letters, and Art of Anne Langton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008
Williams, Barbara. Anne Langton: Pioneer Woman and Artist. Peterborough: Peterborough Historical Society, 1986
Williams, Barbara. Sketches by Anne Langton: Fenelon Falls, Bobcaygeon and Peterborough, 1837-1852. Lindsay, Ontario: Lindsay Art Gallery, 2004
Williams, Barbara. "A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: the Journals, Letters, and Art of Anne Langton." Ontario History 102.2 (Autumn 2009): 258-260.
Wilson, Barbara. Strangers in a Strange Land: Literary Use of Canadian Landscape by Five Genteel Settlers. Guelph: University of Guelph, 1973
Wilson, Barbara. "Anne Langton." Portraits: Peterborough Area Women Past and Present. Peterborough, Ontario: Portraits' Group, 1975

Writings by
Langton, Anne. A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: the Journals of Anne Langton. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1950
Langton, Anne. Langton Records, Journals and Letters from Canada, 1837-1846. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1904
Langton, Anne. The Story of our Family. Manchester, England: T. Sowler, 1881
Langton, William and Anne, et al. Sonnets, original and translations from the Italian. Manchester: J. E. Cornish, 1897

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