Linda Rogers...

Victoria's former poet laureate comes by her artistic talents honestly. Her granddad's cousins were Gerard Manley Hopkins and the delightful octegenarian painter Elisabeth Hopkins (The Painted Cougar-Talonbooks). Her cousin is the best-selling author Joanna Trollope.

Rogers' middle son Keefer bears a striking resemblance to his distant cousin Gerard Manley, don’t you think?

Linda Rogers….

Victoria's former poet laureate comes by her artistic talents honestly. Her grandfather's cousins were Gerard Manley Hopkins and the delightful octegenarian painter Elisabeth Hopkins (The Painted Cougar-Talonbooks). Her cousin is the best-selling author Joanna Trollope.

Rogers' middle son Keefer bears a striking resemblance to his distant cousin Gerard Manley, don’t you think?

Libby Scheier...

As well as a very fine poet, Scheier was a fascinating, occasionally volatile woman. Story has it she nearly decapitated a lover with a brass platter flung Frisbee-style at his head. Of an unfaithful lover, she reportedly said "I shall not think of suicide. I prefer murder."

In the final year of her life, Scheier changed her name to Liba, in honour of her grandmother.

http://www.nowtoronto.com/books/story.cfm?content=125348&archive=20,13,200