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
Ethel Wilson's The Equations of Love Macmillan, 1952 When Melwyk said that she, too, only had this one Ethel Wilson left to read, we decided to read the two novellas published in Equations of Love together. You know how it is, when you are about to exhaust a favoured writer's
Ethel Wilson's Stories, Essays and Letters, Ed. David Stouck U of BC Press, 1987 If you are keenly interested in Ethel Wilson, you will definitely appreciate this volume, which does gather nine stories not published in her Mrs. Golightly collection, six essays, and selected correspondence from 1944 through 1974. And,
