Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel McClelland & Stewart, 1964 Virago Modern Classic No. 251 The Afterword in my McClelland & Stewart edition is written by Adele Wiseman, long-time friend of Margaret Laurence, and it contains several long excerpts from the letters exchanged between the writing friends (Adele Wiseman's The Sacrifice and Crackpot
"Rachel, Rachel" (1968) Dir. Paul Newman Writers: Margaret Laurence (novel), Stewart Stern (screenplay) Okay, so Joanne Woodward is blonde (and I've always imagined Rachel as being dark-haired). And the funeral home on Japonica Street is a white frame house (as so many lovely old American homes are, although they're more
Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God McClelland & Stewart, 1966 Rachel Cameron's List of Problems: 1. Mother 2. Work 3. Loneliness 4. Manawaka life and last, but not least, 5. Rachel Cameron. Her mother is getting older, and she not only has heart problems, but a brilliant capacity for passive-aggressive
Donez Xiques' Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer Dundurn Press, 2005 There are many biographical and critical works about Margaret Laurence. If you're interested in her writing, you might appreciate the pioneering works of Clara Thomas, her 1969 biography, named for her subject, or The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence (1975).
I was introduced to Margaret Laurence as a student, by way of The Stone Angel, in high school English class. I don’t remember much of the related schoolwork, but I do remember my teacher announcing her death (in January 1987). He seemed uncomfortable when he spoke about it. I couldn’t tell
