Staines David. Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections

Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2001. — viii, 172 p. — ISBN: 9780776616582This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.David Staines — Introduction
John Lennox — The Spirit and the Letter: The Correspondence of Margaret Laurence
Christl Verduyn — Cavewomen Div(in)ing for Pearls: Margaret Laurence and Marian Engel
Helen M. Buss — Reading Margaret Laurence's Life Writing: Toward a Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity for a White Female Critic
W.H. New — Margaret Laurence and the City
Birk Sproxton — The Figure of Unknown Soldier: Home and War in The Fire-Dwellers
Nora Foster Stovel — (W)Rites of Passage: The Typescript of The Diviners as Shadow Text
Kristjana Gunnars — Listening: Laurence's Women
Robert Kroetsch — Sitting Down to Write: A Discourse of Morning
Aritha van Herk — Margaret Laurence: The Shape of a Writer's Shadow
Janet Lunn — To Find Refreshment in Writing Children's Books: A Note on Margaret Laurence's Writing for Children
Lois Wilson — Faith and the Vocation of the Author
Joyce Marshall — Margaret Laurence: A Reminiscence