Her poetry was anthologized in Canadian school texts and recognized in 1895 at an Evening with Canadian Poets sponsored by the Royal Society of Canada
.
Reception
Carol Shields
CS
held the Order of Canada and the Order of Manitoba, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
.
Clark, Alex. “Carol Shields”. The Guardian, p. 23.
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After she died, Margaret Atwood
identified her forte as the extraordinariness of ordinary people.
Atwood, Margaret. “To the light house”. The Guardian, p. 28.
