Reviews

Reviews of Charlotte’s Books

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons

• The Peterborough Examiner (January, 2024)
• Literary Review of Canada (October, 2023)
• The Millstone (October, 2023)
• The Wall Street Journal (September, 2023)
• Kirkus Reviews (September, 2023)
• Policy Magazine (September, 2023)
• Publishers Weekly (September, 2023)
• National Post (September, 2023)
• Air Mail (September, 2023)
• Miramichi Reader (September, 2023)
• New York Journal of Books (September, 2023)
• Washington Independent Review of Books (September, 2023)
• Winnipeg Free Press (September, 2023)
• Everything Zoomer (September, 2023)

Murdered Midas

• Quill and Quire (August 20, 2019)
• Globe and Mail (September 20, 2019)
• Artsfile (September, 2019)
• Winnipeg Free Press (November 19, 2019) “You’ll likely feel guilty for enjoying this true-crime account about an unsolved murder, but when a story is told with fulsome information and explained well, it’s hard not to smile. When it’s written by historian and biographer Charlotte Gray, you’ll smile more.”
• Millstone News (November 29, 2019)
• Macleans (December 3, 2019)
• CBC Books (December 9, 2019)
• Globe and Mail (Globe and Mail 14, 2019)
• Wall Street Journal (December 18, 2019) “Comprehensive, readable and resolutely nonsensationalist account… of a ‘crime of the century’ that is still the subject of rumors on the Bahamian islands.”
• Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (December, 2019)
• Peterborough Examiner (December 16, 2019)

The Promise of Canada

• Canada's History (May 25, 2017)
• The Globe and Mail (Oct 22, 2016)

Massey Murder

• Ottawa Citizen (Sep 28, 2013)
• The Globe and Mail (Sep 20, 2013)
• Toronto Star (Sep 20, 2013)
• Maclean's (Sep 20, 2013)
• National Post (Sep 13, 2013)

Gold Diggers

• The Wall Street Journal (Oct 30, 2010)
• Globe and Mail (Oct 29, 2010)
• Seattle Times (Oct 14, 2010)
• National Post (Oct 8, 2010)
• Quill and Quire (Oct, 2010)
• Ottawa Citizen (Sep 26, 2010)
• Winnipeg Free Press (Sep 25, 2010)
• Maclean's (Sep 27, 2010)
• Yukon News (Sep 24, 2010)
• Globe and Mail Preview (Sep 15, 2010)

Nellie McClung

• Ottawa Citizen (Apr 13, 2008)
• Ottawa Citizen (Apr 13, 2008, interview)
• Globe and Mail (Apr 5, 2008)

Reluctant Genius

• Washington Post
• The Beaver (Nov 2006)
• Winnipeg Free Press (Sep 17, 2006)
• Globe and Mail (Sep 16, 2006)

Museum Called Canada

• Ottawa Citizen (Oct 16, 2004)
• Edmonton Journal (Oct 31, 2004)
• Embassy (Nov 2004)
• Globe and Mail (Oct 11, 2004)
• Globe and Mail (Sep 21, 2004)
• National Post (Oct 16, 2004)

Canada: A Portrait in Letters

• Ottawa Citizen (Oct 26, 2003)
• Globe and Mail (Oct 25, 2003)
• National Post (Oct 24, 2003)

Flint & Feather

• Edmonton Journal (2002)
• Globe and Mail (Sep 7, 2002)
• Lethbridge Herald (Nov 2, 2002)
• Quill and Quire (Sep 2002)
• Toronto Star (Sep 15, 2002)
• Elle Magazine (Sep 2002)

Sisters in the Wilderness

• National Post (Dec 11, 1999)
• Ottawa Citizen (Nov 7, 1999)
• Edmonton Journal (Dec 5, 1999)
• Financial Times (Mar 24, 2001)
• Times Literary Supplement (Apr 6, 2001)

Mrs. King

• Toronto Star (Oct 26, 1997)
• Ottawa Citizen (Nov 16, 1997)
• Maclean's (Nov 17, 1997)

Podcasts

Hear Charlotte on podcasts, talking about Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons:

• GBH Forum Network: American Inspiration Author Series
• Classi Lectures: A conversation with Dr. Helen Fry
• New Books Network
• CSPAN BookNotes
• Interview with Joseph Planta
• MacArthur Memorial podcast
• Should Have Listened to My Mother podcast
• Newstalk interview with John Moore

Articles About Charlotte

• Historian Charlotte Gray delves into the lives of the mothers of powerful men
  (The Globe and Mail, Oct 27, 2023)
• Author Charlotte Gray Explores Mother-Son Bond
  (The National Post, Sep 9, 2023)
• Canadian historian Charlotte Gray explores the roles of strong mothers behind two of the 20th century's most powerful leaders in "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons."
  (The Star, Sep, 2023)
• Trial of the Century
  (Macleans, Feb 3, 2014)
• Murder, She Wrote
  (Ottawa Magazine, Sep, 2013)
• Article by Paula Simons
  (Edmonton Journal, Oct 15, 2011)
• Klondike Revisited
  (Quill & Quire, Oct 2010)
• Digging for Gold
  (More, Oct 2010)
• Understanding Genius
  by Anita Lahey
  (Quill & Quire, Jul/Aug 2006)
• The Historian and the Lord of the Ring
  by Paul Gessell
  (Ottawa Citizen, Sep 10, 2006)
• Canadians Eager to Know Their Past
  (Edmonton Journal, Nov 10, 2004)
• Daring, Brains and a Canoe Paddle
  (Ottawa Citizen, Sep 1, 2002)