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Research Interests

The reception of Vergil鈥檚聽Georgics聽in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (for example in medieval聽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鈥檚 Wall (interests shared by some of my students)

Publications

Goodfellow, Marianne S.聽Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns. The Story of Lieut. Skey, MC, and His Father in the Great War. Altona, MB: FriesenPress, 2025.

____. 鈥楾he old familiar hymns鈥� stir memories.聽The Anglican聽(April 2025): 9.聽

____ and John Gahan. 鈥�In Memoriam. Raymond Clark 1941-2022.鈥澛�Vergilius聽69 (2023): 173-75.

____.聽聽鈥淓arly Reception of Vergil鈥檚聽Georgics:听Protinus ITALIAM Concepit.鈥� Vergilius聽61 (2015): 43-76.

____. “Tilth and Vineyard, Hive and Horse and Herd. An Essay on Vergil’s聽Georgics” in聽What’s Cooking?聽聽A Festschrift in Celebration of the 75th Birthday of Mary Ella Milham.聽聽Edited by James S. Murray. University of New Brunswick Libraries, 1997, pp. 74-86.

____. “North Italian Rivers and Lakes in the聽Georgics,”听痴别谤驳颈濒颈耻蝉聽27 (1981): 12-22.

Brearley, Denis and Marianne Goodfellow. “Wulfstan’s Life of St. Ethelwold. A Translation with Notes,”聽Revue de l’Universite d’Ottawa聽52, No.3 July 鈥� September 1982): 377-407.

Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns
The Story of Lieut. Skey, MC, and His Father in the Great War
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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鈥攁nd 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鈥擶arren鈥檚 father, the Reverend Skey, served in France as a military chaplain during the last year of the war鈥攁nd their abiding ties to St. Anne鈥檚 Anglican Church in Toronto. And it is, above all, the story of the author鈥檚 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.聽

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.

“The service and experiences of Warren Skey, a First World War gunner, are revealed in this fine book, with his inner voice revealed for current and future generations. Goodfellow has researched deeply to draw out the intimate history of Skey鈥檚 time in uniform, contextualizing Skey鈥檚 words as captured in his secret diary that illuminates how he coped and endured the hardship and horror along the Western Front.” 鈥擳im Cook, Vimy: The Battle and the Legend