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Margaret Laurence: Canada's Divine Writer
Margaret Laurence was one of Canada's most esteemed and beloved writers. She is best known for her Manawaka novels — The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire Dwellers and The Diviners — which are considered classics of Canadian literature. Yet few know the facts of Laurence's extraordinary and sometimes difficult life.
Last updated: March 26, 2012
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In 1947, Margaret Wemyss marries Jack Laurence. Between 1950 and 1957,...
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Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God is published. She talks about the di...
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In 1969, Laurence returns to Canada after several years in England. Sh...
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In the early 1970s Laurence moves to Lakefield, Ont. She also buys a s...
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Fundamentalist Christians deem The Diviners "blasphemous" and "obscene...
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Laurence speaks out against the censorship of her books in high school...
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Canadians mourn the loss of Margaret Laurence. Across Canada, distingu...
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Margaret Laurence is born Jean Margaret Wemyss to Bob and Verna Wemyss...
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On Jan. 5, 1987, after months of coping with advanced lung cancer, Mar...
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Margaret Laurence was one of Canada's most esteemed and beloved writer...