Margaret Laurence
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Standard Name: Laurence, Margaret
Birth Name: Jean Margaret Wemyss
Nickname: Peggy Wemyss
Africa, putting her gift at the service of preserving oral folk literature through translation and adaptation. Already a journalist, she next turned her hand to essays, short stories, and travel writing. She is best known for her series of Manawaka novels: explorations of the lives of women from a closely imagined prairie community, whose experience takes in the whole span of her century.
was a mid-twentieth-century Canadian who began to publish while resident in Timeline
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Texts
Laurence, Margaret. A Bird in the House. McClelland and Stewart, 1970.
Laurence, Margaret. A Jest of God. McClelland and Stewart, 1966.
Laurence, Margaret. A Tree for Poverty: Somali Poetry and Prose. Eagle Press (for the Somaliland Protectorate), 1954.
Laurence, Margaret. Colours of Speech: Margaret Laurence’s Early Writings. Editor Stovel, Nora Foster, Juvenilia Press, 2000.
Laurence, Margaret. Dance on the Earth: A Memoir. McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
Laurence, Margaret. Embryo Words: Margaret Laurence’s Early Writings. Editor Stovel, Nora Foster, Juvenilia Press, 1997.
Laurence, Margaret. Heart of a Stranger. McClelland and Stewart, 1976.
Laurence, Margaret. Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian dramatists and novelists 1952-1966. Macmillan, 1968.
Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners. McClelland and Stewart, 1974.
Laurence, Margaret. The Fire-Dwellers. McClelland and Stewart, 1969.
Laurence, Margaret. The Prophet’s Camel Bell. McClelland and Stewart, 1963.
Laurence, Margaret. The Stone Angel. McClelland and Stewart, 1964.
Laurence, Margaret. The Tomorrow-Tamer: Short Stories. McClelland and Stewart, 1963.
Laurence, Margaret. This Side Jordan. McClelland and Stewart, 1960.