For years Robert Weaver
, CBC
producer, was AM
's only friend in the literary world. In the late 1970s she bonded with Margaret Laurence
(with whom, a few years earlier, she had differed when...
Literary responses
Ethel Wilson
The book's reception was very positive. Without a single main plot to analyze, reviewers once again primarily discussed EW
's distinctive style, and her precision with language was often noted. In the Vancouver Sun...
Performance of text
Alice Munro
Alice Laidlaw (later AM
), barely out of her teens, first reached a wide audience when her story The Strangers was broadcast by the CBC
through the producer Robert Weaver
.
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart, 2005.
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politics
Alice Munro
She could not, she wrote, overemphasize the importance to her as a student and later as a housewife and mother, to have some of those stories accepted and broadcast on CBC radio
, as well...
Reception
Ethel Wilson
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...
Textual Features
Ethel Wilson
The story also illuminates EW
's method of writing. She explained to Robert Weaver
that she based it on actual events that happened in Stanley Park, Vancouver, to a friend of hers twelve years...
Textual Production
Margaret Atwood
Five years later, in 1987, MA
selected, with Robert Weaver
, the contents of The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. She has edited other collections, such as Barbed Lyres: Canadian...
Timeline
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Texts
Weaver, Robert, and Mavis Gallant. “Introduction”. The End of the World and Other Stories, McClelland and Stewart, 1974, pp. 7-13.