Margaret Simpson Wemyss

Peggy's Aunt Marg thus became her stepmother, Margaret (Simpson) Wemyss . She brought Peggy up from the time of Verna's death, as well as raising from his birth her own son, Bob.

All her life Peggy called her aunt-stepmother Mum. Margaret Wemyss worked as the town librarian, was an early evangelist for Canadian writing, and provided serious and constructive criticism of Peggy's early efforts.

As a child and teenager, Margaret Wemyss (later ML ) was constantly writing stories and poems. She destroyed most of this writing (of which her aunt/stepmother, Margaret Wemyss , was both an inspiration and a...

In a foreword ML explains that this is not the entire story of her life, but an examination of matters close to her heart. She considers especially the issue of maternity, its relation to creativity...