![]() ![]() ![]() She travels to Yurp, but she doesn’t belong there either. But in private, too, she considers herself an outsider. ![]() Not only in public, as she was interviewed in “The Toronto Star”. And two weeks ago, I hadn’t yet turned thirty.” One of an increasing multitude, but in my own point in time and space, a rare enough bird, the only one the paper felt like rooting out that year, the only one at my college under fifty, and their series was on ‘Young Canadians’. These are the ruminations of a young woman who is uncomfortable with the place she seems to be expected to inhabit in society but also uncomfortable with the new ground she seems to be breaking. Like Sarah, in No Clouds of Glory, which was also published as Sarah Bastard’s Notebook in 1968. Instead her name graces an award granted to a Canadian female writer mid-career by the Writers’ Trust.Ī variety of forms, a strong feminist voice, challenging female characters, a fascination with boundaries (and crossing them): Marian Engel’s works are bold and insistent. If Marian Engel had not died mid-career, her name might have been as well known today as Margaret Atwood’s today. ![]()
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