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	Marian Engel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marian Engel (May 24, 1933–February 16, 1985) was a Canadian novelist whose feminist approach made her one of Canada's foremost modern writers.
		Born Marian Searle in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at McMaster University and McGill University, where she wrote her Masters thesis on the English Canadian novel, under the supervision of Hugh MacLennan.
		Engel's most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear which won the Governor General's Award that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marian_Engel (230 words)

	AllRefer.com - Marian Engel (English And French Canadian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Marian Engel, English And French Canadian Literature, Biographies
		Widely considered one of Canada's major modern writers, she is particularly noted for work reflecting a strongly feminist approach.
		Engel's best-known novel is Bear (1976), a controversial best-selling tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/EngelMari.html (202 words)

	Bear (Novel)
		Bear, by Marian ENGEL (Toronto, 1976), winner of the Governor-General's Award, has been called the most controversial novel ever written in Canada because of its heroine's erotic relationship with a bear.
		Her summer journey to a wooded island in northern Ontario on a historical research assignment becomes a spiritual awakening; after her gradual communion with primitive forces in the wilderness, she is profoundly transformed, reborn as a fully integrated person, ready to start a new life in the city.
		Although Engel's unconventional, imaginative tale has an economical, unpretentious prose style and a deceptively simple plot, the novel achieves its power through the complex symbolic and mythic levels on which it operates.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000585 (140 words)

	Marian Engel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Marian Engel (May 24, 1933—February 16, 1985) was a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian novelist whose (A supporter of feminism) feminist approach made her one of Canada's foremost modern writers.
		Engel's most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a (Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws) bear which won the (Click link for more info and facts about Governor General's Award) Governor General's Award that year.
		After Engel's death in 1985, the Writer's Development Trust of Canada instituted the (Click link for more info and facts about Marian Engel Award) Marian Engel Award, which is presented annually to a woman writer in mid-career.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Marian_Engel.htm (291 words)

	Engel, Marian
		Engel, Marian, née Passmore, writer (b at Toronto 24 May 1933; d there 16 Feb 1985).
		In her novels and stories, Engel wrote with wit and grace about the everyday lives of contemporary people, especially women.
		A special issue of Room of One's Own (9:2, 1984) is devoted to Engel and features an interview, articles on her work, original writing by her and a bibliography.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0002617 (184 words)

	The Writers' Trust of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Marian Engel Award was established by the Writers' Trust to honour the memory of one of Canada's most beloved and respected writers.
		Marian Engel won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in 1976 for her novel, Bear, and was the first chair of the Writers' Union of Canada in 1973-74.
		The award is presented once a year to a female Canadian writer, not for a single book, but for a body of work and in anticipation of her future contribution to Canadian literature.
	www.writerstrust.com /programs_apa_marianengel.html (85 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bear, which won Marian Engel the Governor General's Award for fiction and remains her best-known novel, is a short, lyrical book with a simple, notorious plot.
		Engel is, happily, not particularly graphic in her treatment of this subject, but she does load it with a great deal of symbolism.
		In broad outline, Engel tells the story of a bookish young woman, Lou, working as an archivist in dusty historical institute, who is given the field assignment to catalog a nineteenth century library located on a remote island in Ontario.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771099584 (682 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The eclecticism of Engel's notebooks, which include draft fiction, drawings and memoranda as well as personal reflection, presented a daunting challenge for Verduyn, particularly since the cahiers rarely fit public expectations of the diary genre as a chronological and personal narrative.
		This blurring of the real and the fictional, the domestic and the writerly, points to the multiplicity of functions of the contemporary diary as well as to the competing identities of Engel herself, who was both an award-winning novelist and a mother-wife, and who often felt torn between these roles.
		Her notebooks position Engel as a writer engaged with theoretical and national issues, passionate about the status and future of literature in Canada.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/178/2030_McNeill.html (1014 words)

	Lancette book_nonfiction15 Marian_Engel:Life in Letters - Lancette Journal of the Arts
		anniversary of the death of Marian Engel on February 16, 1985, is not far off and it is fitting that there is a new book out about her, which features correspondence she had with friends, family, and colleagues.
		Engel never truly achieved the heights as a novelist of which so many felt she was capable.
		Engel makes reference to Lee in her Russell letter, and mentions the advise the writer gave her in regard to her new novel.
	www.lancetteer.ca /book_nonfiction15.htm (966 words)

	Lifelines
		Before her death in 1985 at the age of fifty-one, Marian Engel had published seven novels, two collections of short stories, and numerous essays and articles.
		Christl Verduyn analyses Engel's work from a feminist literary perspective, examining Engel's concern with women's experiences and perception of the world, female identity and the social constraints on its development, female subjectivity and self, the mother-daughter relationship, and forces opposing women's artistic self-expression.
		Verduyn presents in-depth readings of both the novels and Engel's reflections on her experiences as a woman and a writer as found in her personal journals and other writings.
	www.mqup.mcgill.ca /book.php?bookid=843 (314 words)

	Great Literary honours for Munro, Newman \| Aging information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And Howard Engel, author of the Benny Cooperman mystery series, won the Matt Cohen award of $20,000 for his body of work, which includes a new book written after he suffered a stroke a few years ago and lost the ability to read.
		Engel, who's in his 70s, said Cohen, who died in 1999 soon after winning a Governor General's literary award, was a neighbour and they used to run into each other at a bakery in downtown Toronto.
		Engel's Memory Book, which is being published later this month, is about lead character Cooperman's recovery from a serious blow to the head, and his quest to find out how he ended up in a dumpster with a brain injury.
	www.agiblo.com /node/220 (569 words)

	Read about Marian Engel at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Marian Engel and learn about Marian Engel here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born Marian Searle in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at McMaster University and
		Engel's most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a
		Marian Engel Award, which is presented annually to a woman writer in mid-career.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Marian_Engel (224 words)

	Marian Engel Fonds Description
		Marian Engel, novelist, was born in Toronto on 24 May 1933.
		Engel died in Toronto on 16 February 1985.
		The second accrual was acquired from the estate of Engel in 1992.
	library.mcmaster.ca /archives/findaids/fonds/e/engel.htm (389 words)

	Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Marian Engel's Notebooks
		Marian Engel emerged as a writer during that period in Canada when nationalism increased and “new feminism” dawned.
		Extracts carefully chosen by Christl Verduyn from Marian Engel's forty-nine notebooks — notebooks Engel began in the late 1940s and which she maintained until her death in 1985 — track Engel's creative development, illustrate her commitment to the craft of writing and document her growth as a major Canadian writer.
		Most important of all, they offer to the reader the enigmatic passions of Marian Engel, the workings of a working writer's mind, her furies and frustrations dancing with her over-riding desire to write fiction as transparent and transcendent as glass.
	www.wlu.ca /~wwwpress/Catalog/verduyn.shtml (662 words)

	Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Marian Engel was a writer's writer — an iconoclast, deeply admired and loved by a generation of Canadian authors and critics.
		Informal gatherings were often held at Engel's Toronto house, and it was there that Engel's many literary friendships were first nurtured, later to blossom through the exchange of numerous and extraordinary letters, which are variously funny, insightful, irreverent, and moving.
		Engel's lively epistolary practice offers a view of the literary landscape in Canada from 1965 to 1985 as seen through her correspondence with mentor Hugh MacLennan, and friends and colleagues Robertson Davies, Dennis Lee, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Alice Munro, Margaret Laurence, Matt Cohen, Robert Weaver, and Graeme Gibson, to name but a few.
	www.nwpassages.com /profile_book.asp?ISBN=0802036872 (329 words)

	Marian Engel's Notebooks: `Ah, mon cahier, écoute ...' by Rosemary Sullivan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christl Verduyn's intense engagement with Engel was made clear with her publication in 1995 of Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan-Engel Correspondence and Lifelines: Marian Engel's Writings.
		Verduyn also suggests that Engel's notebooks are a `fascinating blueprint of the creative process' since the genesis of her novels and stories is to be found in them.
		Engel spent her last Christmas in her beloved Paris with her children, still marvelling at the superb gargoyles on Notre Dame and French cuisine when it was good, still finishing her final novel.
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	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 79300392 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Marian Engel was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1933.
		After living abroad and teaching in the United States and Europe, Engel returned to Canada in 1964 and settled in Toronto, which was to remain her home.
		Engel was a founding member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and served as its first chairman in 1973-74.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/random056/79300392.html (209 words)

	Free Term Papers on Howard Engel
		Engel is one of the founders of The Crime Writers of Canada and has won their Arthur Ellis award for best novel in 1985 (http://members.
		Engel says that the radio is excellent for writers because everything is “written with time in mindYou learn very quickly that you’d better get on with it” (Fitzgerald, Steps F2).
		Engel has three children, two from a previous marriage to famous Canadian author Marian Engel, another from his current marriage to novelist Janet Hamilton.
	www.freefortermpapers.com /show_essay/6807.html (181 words)

	McMaster Daily News
		Hay was the 2002 winner of the prestigious Marian Engel Award.
		Engel's papers are also at McMaster and a collection of her letters has been released by University of Toronto Press.
		It was Engel's article "Turning the Knobs on Writers' Closets" (Globe and Mail, November 1984) which inspired the title of this conference.
	dailynews.mcmaster.ca /story.cfm?id=2974 (266 words)

	McGill News -- Newsbites (Page 4)
		Back when Janet Jackson was a 10-year-old with her shirt safely tucked into her jeans, Marian Engel, MA'57, was stirring up controversy.
		Engel was well-liked and highly regarded by her peers.
		Engel was a single mother with two youngsters at the time.
	www.mcgill.ca /news/2004/spring/newsbites/four (659 words)

	Frontiers: Wild democracy: Ecofeminism, politics, and the desire beyond
		But despite the impossibility of mutual transparency or understanding, Lou and the bear become friends; for Lou, at least, this reconciliation with the Other involves the development of a sense of self-knowledge denied to her in her careful little world of historical detail.
		She is opened (literally and figuratively) by the bear and is led to a certain sense of principle, a "simplicity" in Engel's terms, in her encounters with his mute, intensely physical presence.
		Engel is quite careful to show that we never know what the bear thinks about all of this, or if he thinks about it at all.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3687/is_199701/ai_n8742558 (1333 words)

	Encyclopedia: Marian Engel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Howard Engel (born April 2, 1931) is a Canadian mystery writer and CBC producer.
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Marian-Engel (557 words)

	Alibris: Marian Engel
		Marian Engel's amazing novel, about a woman and a bear in the Canadian wilderness, has become a literary classic.
		Her notes include plot summaries, drafts of letters never sent, ideas, conversations, and flights of fancy, providing in the process a record of an important era in Canadian literature, particularly for women...
		Admired by a generation of Canadian authors and critics, Marian Engel was a writer's writer.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Marian_Engel (249 words)

	Marian Engel, McMaster Libraries
		M. Engel's critique, incomplete, of [an early draft of ?] "Women Travelling Alone," typescript, 2 pp., duplicate carbon typescript, 4 pp.
		Marian Engel has a Gallic passion for the cahier, and early in her career acquired the habit of recording ideas, notes on books read, drafts of letters never sent, plot outlines and many other things in her notebooks.
		Engel during her visit to the archives in the spring of 1983.
	library.mcmaster.ca /archives/findaids/findaids/e/engel.01.htm (12878 words)

	Renvall Institute British and Irish Studies - Celtconnection 2004 Holmberg
		Marian Engel, herself born in Canada, is a descendant of Irish immigrants.
		However, it can be said that in her novel Bear Engel addresses the issue of adjustment in the very general sense discussed above: how to imaginatively accommodate oneself to the land.
		The uses of intertextuality enable Engel to explore and undermine our cultural myths about animals and draw attention to the ways in which these stories shape our attitudes towards the natural realm and its creatures.
	www.helsinki.fi /hum/renvall/birold/celtconnection2004/abholmberg.html (393 words)

	Miscellaneous Butler County, Ohio, Obituaries
		Marian Engel, 95, a resident of the Oxford View Nursing Center for the past five years, died Saturday, Sept. 23, 2000.
		Among survivors is a son, Alan Engel and his wife, Sondra, of Oxford.
		Engel was a well-known antique dealer who moved her business to Oxford in 1977.
	www.genealogybuff.com /oh/oh-butler-obits2.htm (2145 words)

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