In January 1956, EW
began work on a new manuscript. At the end of a talk given on 24 January 1957 at the UBC
Library, she told her audience she was working on a book...
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Ethel Wilson
After rejecting The Vat and the Brew, John Gray
nonetheless encouraged EW
to continue writing stories and indicated that publishing a collection might be possible. In a letter dated 20 November 1958, EW
sketched...