John Gray

Through parties hosted by her eventual publisher, the Macmillan Company , EW also met Morley Callaghan , who admired her writing. Other writers she knew included John Gray , A. J. M. Smith , Robert Weaver

The reviews appeared in the month of publication. On 21 August William Arthur Deacon at the Globe and Mail, finally won over, wrote that in contrast to EW 's other work, Swamp Angel was...

EW sent Gray a polished version of Tuesday and Wednesday, The Journey of a White Lady Friend, Mr Sleepwalker, and The Cut Off in July 1950. Readers at Macmillan found promise in...

In 1962 Swamp Angel became the first of EW 's works to be reprinted in the New Canadian Library series. The cover features a not particularly appealing drawing of EW . The book was reissued...

The early manuscript of Miss Cuppy departs from EW 's work significantly, as it is written in the first person. Ellen Cuppy explicitly announces her intention to write a book. After considering the problem of...

In July 1947, John Gray approached EW with the news that a Hollywood agent was interested in the rights for a film production of Hetty Dorval. According to her contract, the rights required EW

The book was produced in England but copies shipped to Canada bore a Canadian imprint. Publication was delayed for some time. Upon first receiving the manuscript in early 1945, EW 's editors at Macmillan

John Gray attempted to persuade the New York division of Macmillan to publish the two novellas together in an American edition, but the company thought that two novellas had even less of a market than...

Despite her evident passion regarding the material, John Gray wrote to EW on 30 April 1957 to say that The Vat and the Brew was not publishable. He noted that the characters were impossible to...

EW sent John Gray the first two chapters of this story and an outline in July 1950. The published story remained true to the outine with the exception of one significant detail in which Eleanor...

EW first mentioned the story in a letter to John Gray in December, 1951. At this point she called the story Country Manners. Another early version entitled Sweet Influence Doth Impart remained part of...

In a letter of 25 July 1953 to editor John Gray , EW sounded characteristically uneasy about the worth of the new manuscript. First, she expressed some anxiety about the scope of her themes, reflecting...

In addition to matters of love and relationships, Love and Salt Water explicitly engages with ethical and philosophical issues. EW downplayed its depth, calling it a temperate affair like the water and climate of our...

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...

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...