The Canadian author Laura Goodman Salverson has primarily been remembered for putting Iceland, and Icelandic Canadians, on the Canadian literary map. A celebrated and popular writer during the 1920s and 1930s, she earned herself a place among the pioneers of western and ethnic Canadian fiction. The later years of her writing career were less successful and more troubled, something that can be attributed to a combination of personal and literary-historical circumstances. She never completely disappeared from Canadian literary history, however, and during the last twenty years, with the rise in feminist and multicultural literary criticism, there has been a significant upsurge of interest in her work and her authorship.
Laura Goodman was the daughter of Icelandic immigrants who had come to Canada in 1887. Her mother came from an old and important Icelandic family, part...
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Citation: Neijmann, Daisy. "Laura Goodman Salverson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 September 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3923, accessed 10 June 2026.]
