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The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their careers, they began a seven-year written correspondence. Laurence had just published her widely acclaimed The Diviners, for which she won her second Governor-General's Award, and Roy had returned to the centre of the literary stage with a series of books that many critics now consider her richest and most mature works. Although both women had been born and raised in Manitoba - Laurence in Neepawa and Roy in St. Boniface - they met only once, in 1978 at a conference in Calgary. As these letters reveal, their prairie background created a common understanding of place and culture that bridged the differences of age and language. Here Laurence and Roy discuss everything from their own and each other's writing, to Canadian politics, housekeeping, publishing, and their love of nature. With a thoughtful introduction by Paul G. Socken, these lovely and intimate letters record the moving, affectionate friendship between two remarkable women.

Laurence, Margaret, --- Roy, Gabrielle, --- Carbotte, Gabrielle Roy, --- Laurence, Jean Margaret --- Wemys, Jean Margaret --- Wemyss, Jean Margaret

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The correspondence between Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman covers a period of 40 years, from 1947-1986, and encompasses the professional and personal developments, accomplishments, disappointments, and satisfactions of that period.

Women authors, Canadian --- Ecrivaines canadiennes --- Correspondence --- Correspondance --- Laurence, Margaret. --- Wiseman, Adele. --- Authors, Canadian --- Laurence, Margaret --- Wiseman, Adele --- Canadian authors --- Wiseman, Adele, --- Laurence, Jean Margaret --- Laurence, Margaret, --- Wemys, Jean Margaret --- Wemyss, Jean Margaret

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This book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir (1890-1970), the Canadian Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), and the New Zealander Janet Frame (1924-2004). These apparently dissimilar authors suffered not only geographical, but also political marginality: they were women from the working-class or struggling middle-class, striving to be considered as professional writers, and emerging from countries that might be felt to be under the shadows of economic and political world powers such as England and the United States. During their lifetimes, they exerted themselves to overcome prejudices about class, gender and ethnicity. They experienced war and the post-war era, and lived through most of the twentieth century, being accurate witnesses and critics of their times. As it discusses major writers who are iconic for the development of the literatures of their respective countries, this book also attracts readers who are interested in learning more about the lives of these remarkable women, the way their socio-historical and geographical circumstances affected their writing and how they expressed such concerns in their autobiographies and other fictional and non-fictional works, besides considering them in relation to contemporary women writers —and autobiographers— who underwent similar experiences.

Autobiography --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Women authors. --- Muir, Willa, --- Frame, Janet. --- Laurence, Margaret. --- Anderson, Willa, --- Muir, W. J. A. --- Muir, Wilhelmina Johnstone, --- Laurence, Jean Margaret --- Laurence, Margaret, --- Wemys, Jean Margaret --- Wemyss, Jean Margaret --- Clutha, Janet Paterson Frame --- Scott, Agness Neill --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Autobiographies --- Women authors --- 法蘭姆珍奈 --- Frame, Janet

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"Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland-one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers-enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing; in a very real sense, their mutual and separate work helped bring "Canadian Literature" into being. With its insider's view of the book business from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters presents a valuable piece of Canadian literary history curated and annotated by Davis and Morra. This is essential reading for all those interested in Canada's literary culture."--

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Canadian literature --- Literature and photography --- Littérature canadienne --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Findley, Timothy --- Laurence, Margaret --- Munro, Alice --- Ondaatje, Michael, --- Criticism and interpretation --- #KOHU:CANADIANA --- 82:7 --- 820 <71> --- Literatuur en kunst --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 82:7 Literatuur en kunst --- Littérature canadienne --- Photography and literature --- Photography --- Munro, Alice, --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael, --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Laurence, Jean Margaret --- Wemys, Jean Margaret --- Findli, Timoti --- Финдли, Тимоти --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Munro, Alice Ann Laidlaw, --- Laurence, Margaret, --- Findley, Timothy, --- Findley, Timothy Irving, --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael‏ --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael --- Wemyss, Jean Margaret