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Biography

Name: Marian Engel
Variant Name: Marian (Passmore) Engel
Birth Date: May 24, 1933
Death Date: February 16, 1985
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Female

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Biography of Marian Engel
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Marian Engel is best known as the author of Bear, which won a Governor General's Award in 1977, but she has written extensively and memorably about urban life in southern Ontario and was also active in writers' causes. Marian Passmore, the daughter of...


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Marian Engel Information
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Marian Engel, née Marian Ruth Passmore (May 24, 1933 – February 16, 1985) was a Canadian novelist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at McMaster University and McGill University, where she wrote her Masters thesis on the English Canadian...


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Herizons
Marian Engel: Life In Letters
10/01/2005: 380 words, approx. 1 pages
MARIAN ENGEL: LIFE IN LETTERS Edited by Christi Verduyn and Kathleen Garay University of Toronto Press, 2004 Marian Engel was as important as many of her better-known contemporaries when she died at 53. She was one of a small group who...
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American Review of Canadian Studies
Marian Engel: Life in Letters.(Book Review)
09/22/2005: 1,431 words, approx. 5 pages
Christl Verduyn and Kathleen Garay, ed. Marian Engel: Life in Letters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xxxi + 295 pp. $ 40.00 cloth. This important volume comes from the hands of Kathleen Garay, Marian Engel archivist in McMaster University and of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Christl Verduyn
12,863 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following essay, Verduyn discusses the dichotomy in women's lives between life and letters as explored by Engel in The Glassy Sea.
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Critical Essay by Christl Verduyn
9,140 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Verduyn analyzes Engel's early and unpublished writings to explore her devotion to her writing, the evolution of her themes throughout her career, and the degree to which she realized the objectives she set out in her notebooks.
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Critical Essay by S. A. Cowan
7,258 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Cowan analyzes similarities in setting, plot, and theme between Bear and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
 


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