{"id":802,"date":"2014-07-19T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T18:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/?p=802"},"modified":"2014-07-21T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T20:48:06","slug":"the-romance-of-a-princess-a-comedy-and-other-poems-by-amy-redpath-roddick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/the-romance-of-a-princess-a-comedy-and-other-poems-by-amy-redpath-roddick\/","title":{"rendered":"The romance of a princess : a comedy, and other poems by Amy Redpath Roddick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The romance of a princess : a comedy, and other poems\" href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/5658388\" target=\"_blank\">This 94 page volume<\/a> of poems was Lady Amy Redpath Roddick&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #525252;\">(1868-1954)<\/span>\u00a05th piece of published writing. While she might be\u00a0best know as the McGill benefactor of the\u00a0<a title=\"Roddick Gates\" href=\"http:\/\/cac.mcgill.ca\/campus\/buildings\/roddick_gates_gatehouse.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roddick Gates<\/a>, having donated them\u00a0in the memory of her husband in 1924 she was also an accomplished writer with <a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/wcidentities\/np-roddick,%20amy%20redpath\" target=\"_blank\">17 works in 27 publications in 2 languages.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_805\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/5658388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-805\" class=\"wp-image-805 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-05-30.jpg\" alt=\"Front inside cover &amp; title page of The romance of a princess : a comedy, and other poems by Amy Redpath Roddick (1922)\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-05-30.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-05-30-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-05-30-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/05\/2014-05-30-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presented to the Library by the Author. Front inside cover &amp; title page of The romance of a princess : a comedy, and other poems by Amy Redpath Roddick (1922)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We recently digitized 9 of her books bringing <a title=\"WorldCat search Author:Amy Redpath Rodick\" href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/search?q=au%3ARoddick%2C+Amy+Redpath%2C&amp;qt=hot_author#%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Adigital%2529format\" target=\"_blank\">the total online to14.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-967\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-17-at-11.18.39-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-07-17 at 11.18.39 AM\" width=\"669\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-17-at-11.18.39-AM.png 669w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-17-at-11.18.39-AM-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-17-at-11.18.39-AM-500x192.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/>\u00a0 You can read more about her in the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.lib.sfu.ca\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ceww\/id\/352\" target=\"_blank\">Canada&#8217;s Early Women Writers digital collection<\/a> at the Simon Fraser University library or for more on\u00a0the history of the Roddick Gates visit McGill digital exhibition <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cac.mcgill.ca\/campus\/buildings\/roddick_gates_gatehouse.html\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual McGill: Campuses and Building<\/a>s<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 94 page volume of poems was Lady Amy Redpath Roddick&#8217;s (1868-1954)\u00a05th piece of published writing. While she might be\u00a0best know as the McGill benefactor of the\u00a0Roddick Gates, having donated them\u00a0in the memory of her husband in 1924 she was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/the-romance-of-a-princess-a-comedy-and-other-poems-by-amy-redpath-roddick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,51],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montreal","category-rbsc","tag-mcgill-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}