CRAWFORD, ISABELLA VALANCY Canadian poetess, the daughter of an Irish physician, was born in Dublin on Dec. 25, 185o, and died in Toronto on Feb. 12, 1887. In 1858 Dr. Crawford and his family emigrated to Canada and set tled in Ontario. After her father's death Isabella supported her self and her mother by journalistic writing in Toronto. In 1884 she published a small volume of poems. But recognition of her work was slow, and, worn out by the struggle for a livelihood, she died of heart disease at the age of 36. Her best known poems are Old Spookeses Pass and Malcolm's Katie.
See K. Hale, Isabella Valancy Crawford (1923), which contains a memoir and full bibliography.