Henry & Self presents the art, writings and life of Sarah Lindley Crease. The Crease name is well known in BC history; and the informationfor this volume is taken from a long lifetime of private letters, journals, sketches and watercolours. This is an extraordinary portrait of a woman and a wife, of colonialism and hardship, and of changing societies and cultural expectations. When Sarah Lindley became engaged to Henry Crease, her definition of self changed; and her letters, journals and pursuits illustrate that change. A woman of great character and many accomplishments, her life and travels make fascinating reading.

This book is made up of two parts: a biography that includes extracts from Crease's letters and diaries, as well as drawings and paintings; and an 1880 journal recording her trip from Victoria to New Westminster, through the Cariboo and Kamloops, which she made in company with Henry Crease, then a puisne circuit judge. The journal is annotated and interspersed with letters written by Sarah to her children and by her children to their parents.

Kathryn Bridge has been immersed in the robust collection of Sarah Lindley Crease drawings, paintings, journals and letters for several years. Her endeavors have produced an extraordinary portrait of an English gentlewoman whose long life and marriage encompassed both privilege and hardship, scandal and accolade, in the old world and the new colonies of Vancouver's Island and British Columbia.

Biography/Women's Studies, 216pp, 6×9, over 80 b/w and colour images
ISBN 1-55039-071-6, paper, $21.95