David Stouck

In 1912 EW was briefly engaged to a Methodist lawyer, John Pethybridge Nicolls , whose family was close with her grandmother. She had known him since she was a young teenager; he was almost twenty...

EW spent some of her time playing tennis, swimming and horseback riding, while also attending to her social duties as wife of a successful doctor. Although Wallace Wilson was well-liked by almost everyone who knew...

Feminist responses to EW 's work emerged in the 1970s. Maggie Lloyd Vardoe's decision to leave a loveless marriage and independently pursue a more fulfilling one was lauded as radical for its time. In the...

In her Cross-Cultural Reckonings, 1995, Blanche H. Gelfant focuses specifically on the function of class in the text. She notes that Frank Cuppy is a quintessential capitalist who unceasingly pursues profit and seeks to...

Mrs. Golightly and other stories was reprinted in the New Canadian Library series in 1990 with an afterword by David Stouck . Stouck notes that EW herself was aware that her work was best suited...

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...

On 23 January 1953 a dramatization of Lilly's Story was broadcast on CBC through Robert Weaver , the producer of the program Canadian Short Stories. The broadcast generated controversy. Newspapers in Montreal reported that...

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...