Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Grant Dixon
Rosalie Osmond
BIO
Biography

Rosalie Osmond is a writer and lecturer who was educated at institutions in three countries (Acadia University, Bryn Mawr College, and Cambridge University) and has spent her life divided between the two sides of the Atlantic. She has taught English literature in universities in both Canada and the U.K. In 2009 she and her husband returned to her hometown of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, thus giving a certain symmetry to an otherwise rather haphazard career.

She has published five books—three histories of ideas and two works of fiction—as well as numerous articles, both academic and popular. At present she is working on a sequel to her first two novels. Since winning the 2019 Rita Joe Poetry prize, she has also been encouraged to continue writing poems.

She has three children and six grandchildren, all of whom love to visit Nova Scotia in the summer. When not writing she is usually engaged in one or her other two passions—music and gardening. She has been featured on the television program The Final Draft, produced by Eastlink and distributed nationally.

ADDRESS
City: Lunenburg, Province/Territory: Nova Scotia
EMAIL
GENRE
Historical fiction and history of ideas
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Broken Symmetry
Publisher
Nevermore Press
Year
2019
Title
Waldenstein
Publisher
Seraphim Editions
Year
2013
Title
Imagining the Soul: A History
Publisher
Sutton Publishing
Title
Stroud
Title
Glous.
Publisher
2003
Title
Changing Perspectives: Christian Culture and Morals in England Today
Publisher
Darton
Title
Longman and Todd
Publisher
1993
Title
Mutual Accusation: Seventeenth-Century Body and Soul Dialogues in their Literary and Theological Context
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
1990
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Audience Size
Audience size
Either public lecture or seminar (12)
Presentation Length
Half hour to one hour
Presentation Description
Presentation description

I enjoy lecturing on visual depictions of the soul (illustrated with slides) and the history of its representation.

I am also happy to talk about the historical background to either of my two published novels.

I am not happy to talk about the craft of writing.

 

Presentation Fee(s)
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Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
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No
Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
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No