Department of English, University of Ottawa

• Introduction (David Staines) 1The Spirit and the Letter: The Correspondence of Margaret Laurence (John Lennox) 7Cavewomen Div(in)ing for Pearls: Margaret Laurence and Marian Engel (Christl Verduyn) 23Reading Margaret Laurence's Life Writing: Toward a Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity for a White Female Critic (Helen M. Buss) 39Margaret Laurence and the City (W.H. New) 59The Figure of Unknown Soldier: Home and War in The Fire-Dwellers (Birk Sproxton) 79(W)Rites of Passage: The Typescript of The Diviners as Shadow Text (Nora Foster Stovel) 101Listening: Laurence's Women (Kristjana Gunnars) 121Sitting Down to Write: A Discourse of Morning (Robert Kroetsch) 129Margaret Laurence: The Shape of a Writer's Shadow (Aritha van Herk) 135To Find Refreshment in Writing Children's Books: A Note on Margaret Laurence's Writing for Children (Janet Lunn) 145Faith and the Vocation of the Author (Lois Wilson) 151Margaret Laurence: A Reminiscence (Joyce Marshall) 163Contributors 169

Department of English, University of Ottawa

• Introduction (David Staines) 1The Spirit and the Letter: The Correspondence of Margaret Laurence (John Lennox) 7Cavewomen Div(in)ing for Pearls: Margaret Laurence and Marian Engel (Christl Verduyn) 23Reading Margaret Laurence's Life Writing: Toward a Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity for a White Female Critic (Helen M. Buss) 39Margaret Laurence and the City (W.H. New) 59The Figure of Unknown Soldier: Home and War in The Fire-Dwellers (Birk Sproxton) 79(W)Rites of Passage: The Typescript of The Diviners as Shadow Text (Nora Foster Stovel) 101Listening: Laurence's Women (Kristjana Gunnars) 121Sitting Down to Write: A Discourse of Morning (Robert Kroetsch) 129Margaret Laurence: The Shape of a Writer's Shadow (Aritha van Herk) 135To Find Refreshment in Writing Children's Books: A Note on Margaret Laurence's Writing for Children (Janet Lunn) 145Faith and the Vocation of the Author (Lois Wilson) 151Margaret Laurence: A Reminiscence (Joyce Marshall) 163Contributors 169

Department of English, University of Ottawa

• Introduction (David Staines) 1The Spirit and the Letter: The Correspondence of Margaret Laurence (John Lennox) 7Cavewomen Div(in)ing for Pearls: Margaret Laurence and Marian Engel (Christl Verduyn) 23Reading Margaret Laurence's Life Writing: Toward a Postcolonial Feminist Subjectivity for a White Female Critic (Helen M. Buss) 39Margaret Laurence and the City (W.H. New) 59The Figure of Unknown Soldier: Home and War in The Fire-Dwellers (Birk Sproxton) 79(W)Rites of Passage: The Typescript of The Diviners as Shadow Text (Nora Foster Stovel) 101Listening: Laurence's Women (Kristjana Gunnars) 121Sitting Down to Write: A Discourse of Morning (Robert Kroetsch) 129Margaret Laurence: The Shape of a Writer's Shadow (Aritha van Herk) 135To Find Refreshment in Writing Children's Books: A Note on Margaret Laurence's Writing for Children (Janet Lunn) 145Faith and the Vocation of the Author (Lois Wilson) 151Margaret Laurence: A Reminiscence (Joyce Marshall) 163Contributors 169