Newfoundland Educator, Scientist, Photographer, 1874 - 1904

At the young age of twenty-four Robert Edward Holloway, a British Schoolmaster, became Principle of the Wesleyan Academy in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Ruby Gough's revealing biography of Holloway and the "Holloway Era" is set against the growing social consciousness of the late nineteenth century and the major crises that shook St. John's - The Diphtheria Epidemic of the late 1880s and the Great Fire of 1892 and its aftermath.

The book is illustrated with Holloway's photographs of Newfoundland and Labrador reproduced from glass plate negatives. This work provides glimpses into Newfoundland history, significant nineteenth-century scientific developments, significant history of the 'Holloway Era,' and a look at the private life of Robert Holloway.