LEADER 04011nam 2200649 450 001 9910455507603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-02298-9 010 $a1-4426-7705-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442677050 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004182 035 $a(EBL)3254755 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000302546 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11249134 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000302546 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10275047 035 $a(PQKB)10420849 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600540 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254755 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671707 035 $a(DE-B1597)464637 035 $a(OCoLC)944177859 035 $a(OCoLC)999368860 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442677050 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671707 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257407 035 $a(OCoLC)815765964 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004182 100 $a20160922h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMarian Engel $elife in letters /$fedited by Christl Verduyn and Kathleen Garay 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-3687-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tChronology -- $t1. Woman Travelling, 1960-1965 -- $t2. Waiting for Honeyman, 1965-1970 -- $t3. Growing Up at Forty, 1971-1975 -- $t4. Changing the Landscape, 1976-1980 -- $t5. A Woman among Friends, 1981-1985 -- $tEnvoi -- $tBibliography -- $tIllustration Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aMarian Engel was a writer's writer - an iconoclast, deeply admired and loved by a generation of Canadian authors and critics. Informal gatherings were often held at Engel's Toronto house, and it was there that Engel's many literary friendships were first nurtured, later to blossom through the exchange of numerous and extraordinary letters, which are variously funny, insightful, irreverent, and moving. Engel's lively epistolary practice offers a view of the literary landscape in Canada from 1965 to 1985 as seen through her correspondence with mentor Hugh MacLennan, and friends and colleagues Robertson Davies, Dennis Lee, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Alice Munro, Margaret Laurence, Matt Cohen, Robert Weaver, and Graeme Gibson, to name but a few.In the spring of 2001, the Marian Engel Archive in Hamilton, Ontario received an exciting and unexpected new installment of Engel correspondence. Marian Engel: Life in Letters is born of that gift. In making their selection, Christl Verduyn and Kathleen Garay have chosen correspondence that specifically captures Engel's life as a writer, a narrative that spans her early youthful travels in Europe to her early death in 1985. In addition to the letters sent to her friends, this startling and important collection includes letters by Engel to critics, to editors, to granting officers, to publishers, and a brilliant letter to a chief librarian lambasting him for, among other pungent criticisms, the library's prejudice against 'Domesticity' amongst other categories. Thoughtfully presented and accompanied by insightful commentary, these letters are rich in their detail, filling in the fine points in the life of not only one Canadian writer, but of a nation of writers. 606 $aNovelists, Canadian$y20th century$vCorrespondence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNovelists, Canadian 676 $a813/.54 700 $aEngel$b Marian, $0456665 702 $aVerduyn$b Christl$f1953- 7001, 702 $aGaray$b Kathleen E.$f1945- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455507603321 996 $aMarian Engel$92471163 997 $aUNINA