The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women
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The Peguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women is a compilation of 32 short stories by Canadian women selected and edited by the Chinese-Canadian author Denise Chong
. It was published in 1997 by Penguin Books
in Toronto.
In her Introduction to this compilation, Chong notes that she "wasn't looking so much for a feminine voice in the short story form, but rather stories in which women figure as central characters, where their points of view dominate".
The authors and the titles of their included stories are:
Denise Chong
- Early life and schooling :A third generation Chinese Canadian, Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 9 June 1953, and was raised in Prince George. She studied economy at the University of British Columbia earning her bachelor degee in 1975...
. It was published in 1997 by Penguin Books
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
in Toronto.
In her Introduction to this compilation, Chong notes that she "wasn't looking so much for a feminine voice in the short story form, but rather stories in which women figure as central characters, where their points of view dominate".
The authors and the titles of their included stories are:
- Cynthia FloodCynthia FloodCynthia Flood is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald Creighton, she grew up in Toronto...
The Meaning of the Marriage - Marion Engel Madame Hortensia, Equilibriste
- Ann Copeland Cloister
- Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
Miles City, Montana - Barbara GowdyBarbara GowdyBarbara Gowdy, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.-Literary career:...
Presbyterian Crosswalk - Mavis GallantMavis GallantMavis Leslie Gallant, , née Mavis Leslie Young is a Canadian writer.-Biography:An only child, Gallant was born in Montreal, Quebec. Her father died when she was young, and her mother remarried. Gallant received her education at seventeen different public, convent, and French-language boarding...
Voices Lost in Snow - Bonnie BurnardBonnie BurnardBonnie Burnard is a Canadian novelist.She grew up in Forest, Ontario, lived much of her life in Saskatchewan, and now lives in London, Ontario.-Awards:...
Crush - Sandra BirdsellSandra BirdsellSandra Louise Birdsell, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage....
The Midnight Hour - Eden RobinsonEden RobinsonEden Victoria Lena Robinson is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Born in Kitamaat, British Columbia, she is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations...
Queen of the North - Shani MootooShani MootooShani Mootoo is a writer who was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1958 to Trinidadian parents. She was raised in Trinidad, where she initially began to explore the artistic and literary world. She began writing and creating visual that drew on her ideas regarding sexual relations between members of the...
A Garden of Her Own - Monique ProulxMonique ProulxMonique Proulx is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.-Works:*Sans cœur et sans reproche, *Le sexe des étoiles **The Sex of the Stars...
Leah and Paul, for Example - Audrey ThomasAudrey ThomasAudrey Grace Thomas, OC is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.-Biography:...
Harry and Violet - Helene Rioux Opening Night
- Margaret AtwoodMargaret AtwoodMargaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
Bluebeard's Egg - Dionne BrandDionne BrandDionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...
No Rinsed Blue Sky, No Red Flower Fences - Diane SchoemperlenDiane SchoemperlenDiane Mavis Schoemperlen is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and educated at Lakehead University....
She Wants to Tell Me - Bronwen WallaceBronwen WallaceBronwen Wallace was a Canadian poet and short story writer.Wallace was born in Kingston, Ontario. She attended Queen's University, Kingston . In 1970, she moved to Windsor, Ontario, where she founded a women's bookstore and became active in working class and women's activist groups...
An Easy Life - Linda SvendsenLinda SvendsenLinda Svendsen is a Canadian screenwriter and author. She was born in Vancouver and has lived there for most of her life.Her works include many critically acclaimed short stories...
White Shoulders - Holley RubinskyHolley RubinskyHolley Rubinsky is a fiction writer who lives in British Columbia, Canada. Born in Los Angeles California, she came to B.C. in 1976 with her daughter, the artist and children's book writer, Robin Ballard....
Rapid Transits - Katherine GovierKatherine GovierKatherine Mary Govier is a Canadian novelist. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, she was educated at the University of Alberta and York University. In 1997, she was awarded the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career. Prior to that she was shortlisted for the Trillium Award in 1994, and won...
Home for Good - Elisabeth HarvorElisabeth HarvorErica Elisabeth Arendt Harvor is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Danish immigrants who made pottery by hand, Harvour grew up in Saint John and on the Kingston Peninsula. She married Stig Harvor in 1957. The couple had...
How Will I Know You? - Joyce Marshall Blood & Bone
- Jane RuleJane RuleJane Vance Rule, CM, OBC was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction.-Biography:Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Jane Vance Rule was the oldest daughter of Carlotta Jane and Arthur Richards Rule. She claimed she was a tomboy growing up and felt like an outsider for reaching six...
Lilian - Ethel WilsonEthel WilsonEthel Davis Wilson, OC was a Canadian writer of short stories and novels.Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, she moved to England in 1890 following the death of her mother. In 1898, after the death of her father, she was taken to live with her maternal grandmother in Vancouver, British Columbia...
Till Death us do part - Isabel HugganIsabel HugganIsabel Huggan , is a prize-winning Canadian author of fiction and personal essays.-Biography:Isabel Huggan spent her childhood in Elmira, a small southern Ontario town where her father worked as a manager for the Canadian branch of an American chemical company...
Secrets - Frances ItaniFrances ItaniFrances Susan Itani is a Canadian fiction writer, poet and essayist.Itani was born in Belleville, Ontario and grew up in Quebec. She studied nursing in Montreal and North Carolina, a profession which she taught and practised for eight years. However, after enrolling in a writing class taught by W. O...
Marx & Co. - Shirley Faessler Lucy & Minnie
- Sharon ButalaSharon ButalaSharon Butala is a Canadian novelist who lives in Eastend, Saskatchewan.In 2001, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada...
Act of Love - Margaret Gibson The House that Stan and Rosie Built
- Dorothy Speak Stroke
- Carol ShieldsCarol ShieldsCarol Ann Shields, CC, OM, FRSC, MA was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.-Biography:Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois...
Hazel - Jane UrquhartJane UrquhartJane Urquhart, OC is a Canadian novelist and poet.-Biography:Born 200 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario in Little Longlac , Ontario, Jane Urquhart is the third of three children and the only daughter of Marian and Walter Carter, a prospector and mining engineer...
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