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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968891103321

Titolo

Must write : Edna Staebler's diaries / / Christi Verduyn, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, ON, : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2005

ISBN

9786610280889

9781554588114

1554588111

9781280280887

1280280883

9780889209145

0889209146

9781423725114

1423725115

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages)

Collana

Life Writing.

Altri autori (Persone)

VerduynChristi

Disciplina

818.5403

818/.5403

Soggetti

Authors, Canadian - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; 1 1920's Words to Express; 2 1930's Longing to Make Something; 3 1940's Must Write; 4 "Duelists of the Deep" 1948; 5 "How to Live without Wars and Wedding Rings" 1950; 6 1950's Writing; 7 1960's Must Work; 8 1970's Something to Write About; 9 "Cape Breton Harbour" (excerpt) 1972; 10 "The Great Cookie War" 1987; 11 1980's The Business of Publishing; 12 1990's Must Do; 13 2000 Still Interested and Interesting

Sommario/riassunto

Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continued to write for over eighty years. Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries draws from these diaries selections that map Staebler's construction of herself as a writer and documents her



frustrations and struggles, along with her desire to express herself, in writing. She felt she