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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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, 2005. 3 |
Performance of text | Margaret Atwood | The CBC
issued a sound recording of these poems, read by Mia Anderson
, in 1969. University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/. |
Performance of text | Margaret Atwood | |
Performance of text | Ethel Wilson | |
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. Feb. 2015. |
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... |
Publishing | Doris Lessing | DL
gave her polemical Massey Lectures (an annual series), broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
program Ideas and published as Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Mavis Gallant | In 1946 A Wonderful Country, a short story about a Czech immigrant in Montreal, was published in the Standard's magazine section and read on CBC
radio. Gallant, Mavis. “‘The Life of the Writer’”. Margaret Laurence Lecture, Writers’ Trust of Canada, 1988. Besner, Neil K. The Light of Imagination: Mavis Gallant’s Fiction. University of British Columbia Press, 1988. 8 |
Reception | Carol Shields | |
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... |
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,... |
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