Marianne Goodfellow
Adjunct Professor
| Degrees: | BA (University of New Brunswick); MA (University of New Brunswick); and PhD (University of Ottawa) |
| Email: | mariannegoodfellow@cunet.carleton.ca |
Research Interests
The reception of Vergil’s Georgics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (for example in medieval florilegia)
Nursing Sisters in the First World War (primary sources including diaries, letters, and memoirs)
An anthology of primary sources from Greek and Latin authors for Travel in Antiquity
The story and legacy of both Roman roads and Hadrian’s Wall (interests shared by some of my students)
Publications
Goodfellow, Marianne S. Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns. The Story of Lieut. Skey, MC, and His Father in the Great War. Altona, MB: FriesenPress, 2025.
____. ‘The old familiar hymns’ stir memories. The Anglican (April 2025): 9. https://theanglican.ca/the-old-familiar-hymns/
____ and John Gahan. “In Memoriam. Raymond Clark 1941-2022.” Vergilius 69 (2023): 173-75.
____. “Early Reception of Vergil’s Georgics: Protinus ITALIAM Concepit.” Vergilius 61 (2015): 43-76.
____. “Tilth and Vineyard, Hive and Horse and Herd. An Essay on Vergil’s Georgics” in What’s Cooking? A Festschrift in Celebration of the 75th Birthday of Mary Ella Milham. Edited by James S. Murray. University of New Brunswick Libraries, 1997, pp. 74-86.
____. “North Italian Rivers and Lakes in the Georgics,” Vergilius 27 (1981): 12-22.
Brearley, Denis and Marianne Goodfellow. “Wulfstan’s Life of St. Ethelwold. A Translation with Notes,” Revue de l’Universite d’Ottawa 52, No.3 July – September 1982): 377-407.
Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns
The Story of Lieut. Skey, MC, and His Father in the Great War
by Marianne S. Goodfellow
Upon his arrival in France in February of 1917, twenty-one-year-old Lieut. Warren Skey purchased a small Au Jour le Jour to record his day-to-day experiences as a gunner, who packed ammunition, loaded on horses, to the guns at the front. He was serving with the 48th Howitzer Battery of the 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery during World War One. Almost a hundred years later author Marianne Goodfellow would discover her great-uncle Warren’s wartime diary forgotten among some family memorabilia—and so she set out to read it.
Exhaustively researched, richly supplemented with visual documentation, and sensitively written, Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns tells of the courage and the suffering of the men and horses of an artillery brigade. But it is also the remarkable personal story of one young man and his family—Warren’s father, the Reverend Skey, served in France as a military chaplain during the last year of the war—and their abiding ties to St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto. And it is, above all, the story of the author’s deeply felt connection to the great-uncle she never knew:
I like to think of him now, not with his fellow lieutenant or signaller shot dead beside him, but rather, riding his horse over the French countryside in springtime or hearing those hymns on church parades that reminded him of home.
Lieut. Skey was awarded the Military Cross for his rescue of wounded men and horses at Passchendaele. Both Warren and his father returned home safely after the war.
