Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack

Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack, published in 1967, is the third and last of the Marchbanks Books by Canadian novelist and journalist Robertson Davies. The other two books in this series are The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947) and The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949).

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1967 - Canadian - Novelist - Journalist - Robertson Davies - The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks - 1947 - The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks - 1949

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Mr. Davies created the character of Samuel Marchbanks when he was editor of the Peterborough Examiner newspaper in the small city of Peterborough, Ontario, northeast of Toronto, starting in the 1940s. He wrote columns under the Marchbanks pseudonym starting in 1944.

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Samuel Marchbanks - Editor - Peterborough Examiner - Peterborough - Ontario - Toronto - 1940s - Columns - Pseudonym - 1944

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Davies first started work on Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack in 1953, but the manuscript was rejected by his publisher. Davies filed the rejected manuscript away, not to return to it for a decade. He resubmitted it for publication in 1966, at which time his publisher loved it. The book is presented in the form of an almanac, based on the signs of the Zodiac.

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1953 - 1966 - Almanac - Zodiac

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(The writings of Samuel Marchbanks were also collected in a one-volume edition, The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks in 1985.)

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The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks - 1985

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