Additional Resources for The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

The Stone Angel For Further Study

Cameron, Donald, Conversations with Canadian Novelists,

Macmillan of Canada, 1973.

Includes "The Black Celt Speaks of Freedom," an interview with Laurence.

Coger, Greta M. K. McCormick, ed., New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism, Greenwood Press, 1996.

Eighteen essays on all aspects of Laurence's work, including three on The Stone Angel, suitable for advanced students.

Gibson, Graeme, Eleven Canadian Novelists, Toronto, 1973. This includes a wide-ranging interview with Margaret Laurence, as well as with other Canadian authors, including Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Mordecai Richler.

Kuester, Hildegard, The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel and The Diviners, Rodopi, 1994.

The chapter on The Stone Angel is scholarly but readable, and includes an interesting section on the genesis of the novel, in which Kuester examines an earlier typescript version and compares it to the final version.