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LITERARY LOCATION: 3556 West 21st Avenue, Vancouver

Canada's most revered novelist in the 1970s, Margaret Laurence, wrote the first draft of one of Canada's greatest novels, The Stone Angel, while living here between 1957 and 1962. Prior to separating from her husband in 1962 and leaving for London, England, Laurence also published her first novel, This Side Jordan from Vancouver, and wrote most of her stories about living in West Africa. Later much of The Fire-Dwellers was set in Vancouver.

Her West Coast years were difficult. She divorced in 1969 and eventually made her home in Lakefield, Ontario, from 1974 until her suicide in 1987. "The good things that happened to me [in Vancouver]," she said, "were, among others, my meeting with Ethel Wilson and her great kindness and encouragement to me... I never felt at home in Vancouver, although I admired it a lot."

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Admired and loved by many, Margaret Laurence was crushed by loneliness and despair in the end. In Alien Heart: The Life & Work of Margaret Laurence (Universit

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Margaret Laurence was one of the most influential Canadian novelists and essayists of the 20th century.

Born in 1926 as Jean Margaret Wemyss in Neepawa, Manitoba (the inspiration for the town of Manawaka in her novels), she was primarily raised by her aunt after her parents died. She attended United College, Winnipeg, graduating in 1947 in Honors English. She began working for the Winnipeg Citizen after graduation. In 1949, she married Jack Laurence, a civil engineer. The following year, they moved to Africa, where they lived until 1957. This experience inspired her short story The Tomorrow-tamer (1963) and her novel This Side Jordan (1960). In 1957, the couple moved to Vancouver, where they lived until 1962 when they separated.

Laurence moved to England with her two children and lived there for 10 years. Most of her most influential books were published in this decade: Prophet’s Camel Bell (1963), The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966), and The Fire-Dwellers (1969). Beyond the novels and me

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Laurence, Margaret (1926-1983)

Jean Margaret (Peggy) Wemyss was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, on July 18, 1926, to Robert Harrison Wemyss, a lawyer, and his wife Verna Jean, née Simpson. Verna died when Peggy was four years old, and Robert later married Verna’s sister, Margaret Campbell Simpson, a teacher and later a librarian, who was throughout the years one of Peggy’s “greatest encouragers.” After Robert Wemyss’s death, when Peggy was 9 and her brother still a baby, the family went to live with Grandfather Simpson in his big brick house on First Avenue.

Peggy’s first “professional” job as a writer was as a reporter for The Neepawa Press in the summer of 1943. Miss Mildred Musgrove, her English teacher, gave her valuable criticism and encouragement during her school years. In a letter written in 1983, Margaret stated, “I was an extremely fortunate child. As someone who has always been interested in reading and in writing (which I began to do in about Grade 2 or 3), I always had someone there who encouraged me.”