From 1957 she attended Victoria College
, University of Toronto
. Canadian publishing and the arts in Canada, broadly considered, had not yet recovered from the second world war. There were no cheap reprints of...
Bennett, Ronan. “The Country Girl’s Home Truths”. Guardian Unlimited, 4 May 2002.
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Friends, Associates
Mavis Gallant
MG
corresponded with many writers and artists while travelling and in Paris, many of them Canadian. Indeed, she claimed that I met more Canadians in Paris, in 1950, than I've ever known since.
Bureau, Stephan. “An Interview with Mavis Gallant”. Brick: A Literary Journal, translated by. Wyley Powell, 1 June 2007.
One...
Intertextuality and Influence
Bernice Rubens
For many years BR
alternated books with film work; in some phases of her career she alternated novels about Jewish and gentile society, rather like Maria Edgeworth
alternating Irish and English settings, while gradually she...
Literary responses
Mavis Gallant
On the subject of Gallant's first The New Yorker story, Madeline's Birthday, Mordecai Richler
—signing his name as Mordy—wrote to Douglas M. Gibson
to say i saw mavis's story in the new yorker. i'm...
Reception
Mavis Gallant
As a bilingual Montreal-born Canadian author living in Paris, writing in English, and publishing primarily in an American magazine, MGs often found herself a source of contention about her relationship to her native country...
Reception
Mavis Gallant
Although contemporaneous with other Canadian authors who spent long periods abroad, including Margaret Laurence
, Mordecai Richler
, and Norman Levine
, MGhas come to seem the complete expatriate in ways these others have...
Textual Production
Ethel Wilson
While working on the collection that became Mrs. Golightly and other stories, EW
began a series of public speaking engagements. She gave a talk at the University of British Columbia
on January 28, 1956...
Timeline
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Texts
Richler, Mordecai, and Mavis Gallant. “Afterword”. The Moslem Wife and Other Stories, McClelland & Stewart, 1994, pp. 247-52.