Adele Wiseman
Standard Name: Wiseman, Adele
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Dedications | Margaret Laurence | ML
published four books for children over a span of ten years: first Jason's Quest, 1970 (illustrated by Staffan Torell
), then Six Darn Cows, 1979 (contributed to a series called Kids of... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Laurence | Among her fellow writers ML
enjoyed a long and close friendship with Adele Wiseman
. She also became a friend of the younger Alice Munro
, who championed her in the censorship affair. |
Literary responses | Margaret Laurence | In her preface to her translations, written sixteen years later, ML
said she was no antholopologist and called her own translations amateurish, but Mary Renault
(an English historical novelist settled in South Africa), in a... |
Textual Features | Margaret Laurence | This book centres on its protagonist-narrator, ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley (née Currie), whom her creator described in a letter to Adele Wiseman
as this daft old lady . . . crabby. snobbish. difficult, proud as Lucifer... |
Textual Production | Margaret Laurence | ML
had often thought of writing her autobiography. She finished a draft of her memoir in July 1986, the month before she was diagnosed with lung cancer. While recovering from surgery she found herself physically... |
Textual Production | Ethel Wilson |
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