Working at night and very fast, James De Mille wrote over twenty popular novels--"potboilers"--between 1861 and 1877. By day, he was the respected and respectable professor of rhetoric and history at ...
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James De Mille was one of the most successful and prolific nineteenth-century Canadian writers of popular fiction during his relatively short writing career. He is best remembered for A Strange Manusc...
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In the following essay, MacDonald maintains that Helena's Household represents De Mille's questioning of the doctrines of the early Christian church and exploration of the many religious...
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In the following excerpt from her introduction to a 2000 edition of De Mille's Elements of Rhetoric, Downey presents a broad overview of the text, discussing De Mille's comments on style...
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James De Mille
Critical Essay by Bruce F. MacDonald
