Wachtel, Eleanor, editor. “Carol Shields”. More Writers and Company: New Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel, Vintage Canada, pp. 36-56.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Ethel Wilson | |
Reception | Ethel Wilson | On 23 January 1953 a dramatization of Lilly's Story was broadcast on CBC
through Robert Weaver
, the producer of the program Canadian Short Stories. The broadcast generated controversy. Newspapers in Montreal reported that... |
Textual Production | Ethel Wilson | While working on the collection that became Mrs. Golightly and other stories, EW
began a series of public speaking engagements. She gave a talk at the University of British Columbia
on January 28, 1956... |
Reception | Ethel Wilson | The article put great strain on her friendship with Earle Birney
, who was fighting to keep creative writing courses alive at the University of British Columbia
. As an explanation she wrote to Birney,... |
Textual Production | Ethel Wilson | EW
was characteristically apprehensive about publicity. She strictly controlled the content of the publicity articles which appeared before the novel's publication. They included simply her account of the novel occurring to her in a dream... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Carol Shields | While she was enrolled in a magazine-writing course at the University of Toronto
, CS
wrote a story which to her amazement her instructor arranged to have broadcast on the CBC
, and over the... |
Reception | Carol Shields | |
politics | Alice Munro | In a strongly-worded statement for Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
, AM
threw her support behind the CBC
, the national broadcaster, towards which the government was showing some hostility. Friends of Canadian Broadcasting,. Email to its members. |
Performance of text | Alice Munro | Alice Laidlaw (later AM
), barely out of her teens, first reached a wide audience when her story The Strangers was broadcast by the CBC
through the producer Robert Weaver
. Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart. 3 |
Friends, Associates | Alice Munro | For years Robert Weaver
, CBC
producer, was AM
's only friend in the literary world. In the late 1970s she bonded with Margaret Laurence
(with whom, a few years earlier, she had differed when... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Munro | They had been students together although, as a veteran, he was a few years older. Fremlin had sent her one of the best letters she ever had about her writing, she said, after hearing her... |
politics | Alice Munro | She could not, she wrote, overemphasize the importance to her as a student and later as a housewife and mother, to have some of those stories accepted and broadcast on CBC radio
, as well... |
Textual Production | Alice Munro | Other stories after The Strangers were aired on CBC
. As an undergraduate AM
published in the University of Western Ontario
's student magazine, Folio, and moved on to wider circulation in the pages... |
Textual Production | Alice Munro | |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. M. Montgomery | The novel had six editions before November 1908; its instant success brought sometimes unwanted celebrity to the author. She was pleased, however, to receive an admiring letter from Mark Twain
. Many of the reviews... |
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