These stories, as she has since described them in interviews, were intensely romantic, tales of rapes and abortions, the occult, and love that is stronger than death. In 1949 she left Wingham for London, Ontario, and two years at the University of Western Ontario. It was not until after her marriage in 1951 to James Munro and the couple's move to Vancouver that she started to write from her own experience about her native region.
Munro country is Huron County and in particular Wingham, through which the Maitland River flows on its course to Lake Huron. West of Wingham, it winds through a section called Lower Town, past the Laidlaw place, and through the fields know as the Flats. This landscape and the Scots-Irish community that lives there, as perceived in childhood and re-created in adult memory, form the imaginative core of Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades, Lives of Girls and Women, Who Do You Think You Are" and some of the best stories in Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You and The Moons of Jupiter.
For this reason, Munro has been called nostalgic, old-fashioned, interested in a past that has disappeared.
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