Endnotes:

1. Clare Brant, "Obituaries: A Dead Important Genre," European Journal of Life Writing 9 (July 6, 2020): 245.

2. Jacquiline Ondimu, "A Socio-cultural Understanding of Death: A Genre Analysis of Obituaries in a Kenyan Newspaper," Language Matters45, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 6.

3.  John Swales, Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 58.

4. Magdalena Szczyrbak and Zygmunt Mazur, New Perspectives in English and American Studies: Volume Two: Language (La Vergne: Jagiellonian University Press, 2021), 80.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. Laurie Mcneill, "Generic Subjects: Reading Canadian Death Notices as Life Writing," Life Writing 1, no. 2 (January 2004): 152-153.

9. Szczyrbak and Mazur, New Perspectives, 77.

10.  Robin D. Moremen and Cathy Cradduck, "'How Will You Be Remembered after You Die?' Gender Discrimination after Death Twenty Years Later," OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 38, no. 4 (June 1999): 242.

11. Mcneill, "Generic Subjects," 152.

12. Kimberly R. Bowman, "History in Memoriam: Analyzing Obituaries to Learn Historical Context," The Social Studies 111, no. 2 (August 22, 2019): 51-52.

13.  Ondimu, "A Socio-cultural," 7.

Image Citation:

Fig. 1: "A Journalist of Courage," The Telegram (Toronto, ON), December 18, 1961.

Fig. 2: Tell Columnist: Judith Robinson Dies Suddenly," The Telegram (Toronto, ON), December 18, 1961.

Fig. 3: "Died," The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON), May 12, 1853, microfilm.

Fig. 4: "Died," The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON), January 5, 1870, microfilm.

Fig. 5: "Third Body Found," The Toronto Daily Star (Toronto, ON), January 10, 1894, microfilm.

Fig. 6: Obituaries," The Vancouver Sun, February 16, 1912, microfilm.

Fig. 7:  "A Distinguished Journalist," The Telegram (Toronto, ON), December 12, 1961.

Fig. 8: "Columnist Judith Robinson Dies, Aged 62," The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON), December 18, 1961, microfilm.

Fig. 9: Hal Walker, "Judith Robinson As A Cub Reporter," The Telegram (Toronto, ON), December 19, 1961.

Fig. 10: Unknown, Judith Robinson, photograph, accessed April 20, 2023.