Carol Shields
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Standard Name: Shields, Carol
Birth Name: Carol Ann Warner
, an American-born Canadian novelist of the twentieth century, a low-key but passionate feminist, published a collection of poetry as her first book. Her earliest novel features as minor character a novelist whose stock-in-trade is to be Canadian but who is by birth (secretly) an American. Her novels probe the freight of meaning in the small change of ordinary lives, especially those of women, and the way that an ordinary person becomes an artist. They delight in self-reflexiveness, and combine self-conscious artistry with a disarming appearance of transcription from life.
also wrote short fiction and plays.
Timeline
Texts
Shields, Carol, and Blanche Howard. A Celibate Season. Coteau Books, 1991.
Shields, Carol. A Fairly Conventional Woman. Macmillan of Canada, 1982.
Shields, Carol. Coming to Canada: Poems. Carleton University Press, 1992.
Shields, Carol. Departures and Arrivals. Blizzard Pub., 1990.
Shields, Carol. Dressing Up for the Carnival. 1st Canadian Edition, Random House Canada, 2000.
Shields, Carol et al., editors. Dropped Threads 2: more of what we aren’t told. Vintage Canada, 2003.
Shields, Carol, and Marjorie Anderson, editors. Dropped Threads: what we aren’t told. Vintage Canada, 2001.
Shields, Carol, and Catherine Shields. Fashion, Power, Guilt, and the Charity of Families. Blizzard Pub., 1993.
Shields, Carol. Happenstance: A Novel. McGraw-Hill, Ryerson, 1980.
Shields, Carol. Intersect: Poems. Borealis Press, 1974.
Shields, Carol. “Introduction”. Coming to Canada: Poems, edited by Christopher Levenson, Carleton University Press, 1998, p. xi - xxv.
Shields, Carol. Jane Austen. Viking, 2001.
Shields, Carol. Larry’s Party. 1st Canadian Edition, Random House Canada, 1997.
Shields, Carol. Others. Borealis Press, 1972.
Shields, Carol. “Rereadings: Beautiful youth”. The Guardian, p. G2: 29.
Shields, Carol. Small Ceremonies. McGraw-Hill, Ryerson, 1976.
Shields, Carol. Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision. Borealis Press, 1977.
Shields, Carol. Swann: A Mystery. Stoddart, 1987.
Shields, Carol. Swann: A Mystery. Vintage Canada, 1995.
Shields, Carol. The Box Garden. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977.
Shields, Carol. The Collected Stories. Random House Canada, 2004.
Shields, Carol. The Collected Stories. Vintage, 2005.
Shields, Carol. The Orange Fish. Random House, 1989.
Shields, Carol. The Republic of Love. Random House of Canada, 1992.
Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries. Vintage Books, 1993.