Margaret Wemyss
, a recent graduate, married Jack Laurence
, a fellow-student whose subject was engineering. He was also a war veteran, having been a mechanic with the RAF
.
Stovel, Nora Foster. Divining Margaret Laurence. A Study of Her Complete Writings. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
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Laurence, Margaret. Dance on the Earth: A Memoir. McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
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King, James. The Life of Margaret Laurence. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Margaret Laurence
After completing her first draft ML
resisted the advice of her husband
to substitute third- for first-person narrative and a straightforward chronological sequence for the vagaries of Hagar's intermittent present consciousness and her remembered past...
Travel
Margaret Laurence
ML
set sail from Canada with her husband
for England, en route for Africa.
Stovel, Nora Foster. Divining Margaret Laurence. A Study of Her Complete Writings. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.