While she was still a student Alice Laidlaw
married James Munro
, who worked for a department store until in 1963 he became a bookseller.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart, 2005.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Alice Munro
She found it hard to combine a literary career with raising her daughters, but her husband
encouraged her because he believ[ed she] was a writer.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Margaret Laurence
, already an established author, tried, but without...
