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	Margaret Laurence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret Laurence (July 18, 1926–January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist.
		Born Jean Margaret Wemyss in Neepawa, Manitoba, Laurence was the daughter of solicitor Robert Wemyss and Verna Jean Simpson.
		Laurence, who suffered from lung cancer, committed suicide at her home in Lakefield to spare herself and her family further suffering.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Laurence (590 words)

	Laurence, Margaret
		In 1957 the family moved from Ghana to Vancouver, and in 1962 Margaret Laurence and the children moved to England, settling in the village of Penn in Buckinghamshire.
		Margaret and Jack Laurence were divorced in 1969, and in 1974 Margaret Laurence returned to live permanently in Lakefield, Ont.
		In 1968 Laurence's continuing interest in African literature was expressed in Long Drums and Cannons, her tribute to the upsurge of Nigerian writing in English between 1958 and 1964.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0004552 (910 words)

	Northwest Passages - Author Profile: Margaret Laurence
		Laurence also maintained her connection with the university community and served as chancellor of Trent University from 1981 to 1983.
		During the last decade of her life, Margaret Laurence was actively involved in speaking and writing about issues that concerned her such as nuclear disarmament, the environment, literacy, and other social issues.
		Margaret Laurence died on January 5, 1987 and her ashes were interred at the Riverside Cemetery in Neepawa, Manitoba.
	www.nwpassages.com /bios/laurence.asp (876 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Margaret Laurence (1926) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Margaret Laurence accepted the position of writer in residence at the University of Toronto in 1969.
		Margaret Laurence was the recipient of numerous literary awards and honourary degrees.
		Margaret Laurence died of cancer in January 1987 and was interred in Neepawa.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=285 (843 words)

	Historic Authors: Margaret Laurence
		Laurence said that it was at this time that she "began seriously to write." A travel book, The Prophet's Camel Bell, written some years later, describes the Laurences' experience in Somaliland.
		Margaret Laurence received honorary degrees from more than a dozen Canadian universities, was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1971, and had numerous other honors bestowed upon her.
		Margaret Laurence died on January 5, 1987, and at her request, her ashes were brought by her children, Jocelyn and David, to be interred in Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa, on June 23, the day before the official opening of The Margaret Laurence Home, the former Simpson house where she had lived in her youth.
	www.mbwriter.mb.ca /mapindex/l_profiles/hist_laurence.html (751 words)

	Laurence, Margaret on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Laurence was particularly concerned with character, and her writings usually focused on women struggling to overcome the limitations of small town life.
		Temples and tabernacles: alternative religions in the fictional microcosms of Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro.
		African interests: white liberalism and resistance in Margaret Laurence's "Pure Diamond Man".
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/LaurenceM1.asp (383 words)

	The Life of Margaret Laurence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Life of Margaret Laurence is a revealing depiction of a vulnerable, often troubled individual from her beginnings in the small Manitoban town of Neepawa - the back drop for the fictional Manawaka - to her death in 1987 at the age of 60.
		Laurence struggled to maintain a balance between the two things which consumed her life: her family and her writing.
		Margaret Laurence comes across as a flawed individual, but one of incredible strength parallel to that of her fictional characters.
	www.mun.ca /muse/archive/Volume49/Issue07/ent/laurence.html (314 words)

	Margaret Laurence
		Margaret Laurence (July 18, 1926-January 5, 1987), a much-loved Canadian author, was one of the great novelists of the twentieth century.
		Important for Laurence was its intermingling of the sacred and the secular, for she saw the handiwork of God in all activities including the ongoing struggle for dignity and justice for all people.
		Laurence's feelings were mixed, however, when others began nudging her aside for the unofficial position of First Lady of Canadian Literature.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/margaretlaurence.html (1941 words)

	Biography Biographies Essays - Margaret Laurence
		Margaret's Laurence's grandmother, Margaret Weymss, whom she was named after, came from a proud family.
		Margaret found that writing was the only way she could control external events, such as life and death.
		While Margaret Laurence lived in Africa she started to write A Tree For Poverty, Somali Poetry and Prose which was published in Nairobi, in 1954.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=15115 (2001 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		Margaret Laurence uses these final lines from Purdy's poem as the epigraph to The Diviners.* In the novel, Morag the writer may be defined as essentially "an interpreter of the past.
		Laurence and Munro are both interested in the implications of the photo's participation in past and present, nature and culture, continuity and discontinuity, activity and passivity; but the expression of their interest clarifies the distinctions between them, not least in their choice of form.
		Laurence, on the other hand, has said that her short stories have mainly been triggered by events she has experienced or read about, and her novels are the outgrowth from individual characters: it is they who come first, and then "they grow slowly in the imagination until 1 seem to know them well.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol13_1/&filename=Bowen.htm (4864 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence
		When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vastly different cultures.
		Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926.
		Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0771047061 (258 words)

	10/11/97 -- Arts: Reconstructing Margaret Laurence
		In his new book, The Life of Margaret Laurence, King uses everything from unpublished letters to conversations with friends in order to unmask the real issues that surrounded her life and death, and led her to the forefront of the Canadian literary scene.
		Laurence, one of Canada's finest female authors, is best known for her novels The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers, and The Diviners.
		A few weeks after King approached Laurence's children, Jocelyn, 45, and David, 42, with the idea of writing the biography, he was given the green light to set the record straight about the real life of their mother.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/97-3/issue11/laurence.html (1101 words)

	Margaret Laurence
		It was when his his work called for him to move to England, then to Africa that Margaret Laurence's first major literary achievements were born, mostly based on her experiences living in Africa.
		Margaret and Jack were divorced a few years later, and she returned to Canada, settling down in Lakefield Ontario.
		Margaret Laurence has written many important works, including "The Diviners", and "The Stone Angel", she has receiver over 14 honorary degrees, and was awarded the Order of Canada.
	www.canadians.ca /more/profiles/l/l_margaret_laurence.htm (193 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Laurence’s work coincided with the great upsurge of enthusiastic nationalism that anticipated and accompanied our Centennial in 1967, and she was constantly in demand as a writer-in-residence, speaker and spoke-sperson for Canadian concerns.
		Many honours have been established in her memory, including a Margaret Laurence Chair in Women’s Studies held jointly by the Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba, and memorial addresses held annually at Trent and at the General Meeting of the Writers Union of Canada.
		Most important of all is the Margaret Laurence Memorial Home in Neepawa, Manitoba, a loving achievement by citizens of her native town and province to preserve the Simpson house as she knew it.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/106-107.htm (843 words)

	Canada Reads
		Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa on Nov. 18, 1939.
		Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer of extraordinary craft and profound insight into the workings of the human heart.
		Margaret Laurence was born Jean Margaret Wemyss in Neepawa, Manitoba on July 18, 1926.
	www.cbc.ca /canadareads/cr_2002/books.html (1405 words)

	Margaret Laurence Fonds Description - Archives & Research Collections
		Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss) was born in Neepawa, Manitoba on 18 July 1926.
		The third accrual (44-1992) was acquired from The Estate of Margaret Laurence in December 1992.
		The fifth accrual (15-1998) was acquired from The Estate of Margaret Laurence in May 1998; access to this accrual is restricted to bona fide scholars who are either graduate students, have doctoral degrees or are faculty members at a recognized college or university.
	library.mcmaster.ca /archives/findaids/fonds/l/laurbio.htm (505 words)

	Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because Wiseman saved Laurence's letters from the beginning of their exchange as young adults, the book provides an unusually complete record of a career, from the early stages of a writer's discovery of her vocation to her valedictory thoughts.
		I have focused on Laurence in my discussion thus far partly because the record of Wiseman's letters to Laurence is far less complete: Laurence, alas, discarded most of her correspondence prior to the early 1960s.
		Laurence, always more self-conscious (in both senses of the phrase), writes out of a personal and subjective perspective, occasionally moving from that to consider more abstract issues; Wiseman occupies a place in between these poles, for she was engaged in the social order in a way that Laurence never was.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/681/wiseman147.html (1525 words)

	Beliefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jean Margaret (Peggy) Wemyss was born in Neepawa, Manitoba on July 18,1926 to Robert Harrison Wemyss, a lawyer, and his wife Verna Jean, nee Simpson.
		Laurence received honorary degrees from more than a dozen Canadian universities, was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1971, and numerous other honors were bestowed upon her.
		Margaret Laurence died on January 5, 1987, and, at her request, her ashes were brought by her children, Jocelyn and David, to be interred in Riverside Cemetary, Neepawa, on June 23, the day before the official opening of The Margaret Laurence Home, the former Simpson house where she had lived in her youth.
	www.uuottawa.com /laurence_margaret.htm (753 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Diviners: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Laurence's solutions for each woman were far from simplistic, but each woman came to some resolution in her life.
		Margaret Laurence got all kinds of praise and hate mail because of it, as well as disapproval from members of her congregation and people who knew her back home for writing "such stuff".
		Laurence is a brilliant writer and this is her best work -- which is a big compliment since her other novels are incredible too.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/077109986X (1328 words)

	The Margaret Laurence Fund
		The award of Margaret Laurence Fund grants are uplifting occasions, a time to recognize outstanding work that Margaret would have admired if she was still with us, and a time to make a positive difference.
		The Margaret Laurence Society Homepage This web resource is dedicated to the study of Margaret Laurence's life and her writing.
		The Margaret Laurence Fund Through this fund, grants and scholarships are made to foster an understanding of peace and the environment upon which the fate of this fragile planet rests.
	www.eprf.ca /eprf/mlf (1444 words)

	Canadian Literature: Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Together, with their echoes of experiences that stretch from Margaret Laurence's prairie childhood, through her periods in Somaliland and Ghana, down to her Ontario present, they form not merely an evocative background to her fiction, but also a minimal autobiography of a remarkable author and a remarkable person.
		This is something Margaret Laurence seems to have recognized clearly enough through reflecting on her works as well as her world, for her novel, while in no direct way autobiographies, have been rooted always in experience intensely lived and understood.
		In a later essay, "Where the World, Began", Laurence develops this dual aspect of the past in the writer's consciousness, and relates her personal experience to the more general shifts of consciousness that make us seek through history for the myths that distinguish a culture moving towards maturity.
	www.cdn-lit.ubc.ca /resources/pride.html (1132 words)

	P-25 Margaret Laurence House - Province of Manitoba \| General Page
		Margaret Laurence, an internationally renowned author, was born and raised in Neepawa.
		Laurence received two Governor-General's awards for fiction and became a Companion of the Order of Canada in l97l.
		Laurence lived here in her grandfather's house from l935 to l944.
	www.gov.mb.ca /chc/hrb/prov/p025.html (172 words)

	The Stone Angel: A Grade 12 Advanced Independent Study
		As our class searched the Web for information on Margaret Laurence we were somewhat surprised to find that there was very little to help students with their research.
		As John Moss states, "What gives Margaret Laurence's vision the resonant dimensions of universal truth is the…interlacing of the destructive and constructive effects of (Hagar's) recalcitrant pride…Pride is a double-edged sword." Indeed, her great pride helps her to cope with the many difficulties she faces throughout her life.
		Magaret Laurence's Hagar's flights where when she fled from the Shipley place, from her husband Bram, taking her two sons, and secondly, she fled home to seek revenge on Marvin and Doris, her son and daughter-in-law, being childlike and ran away to create a scare.
	www.theenglishtutor.com /laurence.html (16674 words)

	Laurence - Let's Talk About It! - Idaho State Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She is alternately lucid and clouded in her mind, moving back and forth between the present and the past, between her stubborn resolve and the fear and disorientation brought on by her age.
		Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) is one of Canada's finest authors.
		A documentary, "Margaret Laurence - first lady of Manawaka" was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1979.
	www.lili.org /read/letstalk/themes-books/laurence.htm (1189 words)

	MARGARET LAURENCE: THE FIRST LADY OF CANADIAN LITERATURE
		The Laurences' son, David, was born in Ghana in 1955.
		Although Laurence is the first Canadian subject to be featured in one of his biographies (his next project will be about the life of Canadian publisher Jack McClelland), there are many recurrent themes common to his works.
		The revelations of Laurence's suicide attempts and the degree of her alcoholism will certainly have an impact on the way Canadians perceive the author.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/laurence.html (1799 words)

	Michigan State University Press \| Heart of a Stranger \| Margaret Laurence
		Margaret Laurence, best known for her five Manawaka novels, also published five African texts, as well as collections of essays, short stories, children's books and literary criticism.
		Margaret Laurence's collection of travel essays, written between 1964 and 1975, the period when she composed her Manawaka cycle, not only chronicles her travels; it also constitutes a concealed autobiography and reveals how her travels inspired her fiction.
		Professor Nora Foster Stovel's new introduction, "Heart of a Traveller: Margaret Laurence's Life Journey," explores how Laurence's experiences in Somalia and Nigeria, Greece and Egypt, England and Scotland influenced and informed her Canadian fiction.
	msupress.msu.edu /bookTemplate.php?bookID=794 (284 words)

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