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This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.
Introduction (David Staines) 1The Spirit and the Letter: The Correspondence of Margaret Laurence (John Lennox) 7Cavewomen Div(in)ing for Pearls: Margaret Laurence and Marian Engel (Christl Verduyn) 23Reading Margaret Laurence's Life Writing: Toward a Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity for a White Female Critic (Helen M. Buss) 39Margaret Laurence and the City (W.H. New) 59The Figure of Unknown Soldier: Home and War in The Fire-Dwellers (Birk Sproxton) 79(W)Rites of Passage: The Typescript of The Diviners as Shadow Text (Nora Foster Stovel) 101Listening: Laurence's Women (Kristjana Gunnars) 121Sitting Down to Write: A Discourse of Morning (Robert Kroetsch) 129Margaret Laurence: The Shape of a Writer's Shadow (Aritha van Herk) 135To Find Refreshment in Writing Children's Books: A Note on Margaret Laurence's Writing for Children (Janet Lunn) 145Faith and the Vocation of the Author (Lois Wilson) 151Margaret Laurence: A Reminiscence (Joyce Marshall) 163Contributors 169
