Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan-Engel Correspondence by Hugh MacLennan

By Hugh MacLennan

A scholar at McGill within the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis lower than the path of Hugh MacLennan. Their interact turned the root of a correspondence, the MacLennan half which survives and is targeted right here. either own in nature, MacLennan's letters to Engel offer interesting insights into his life's pursuit of writing and supply one other glimpse of the writer of Two Solitudes.

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17) Honeyman. Years. Like some dreadful addiction, waiting for him as for a fix. Later, fighting him. "You're growing out of me," he said blandly, woundingly, almost relieved. . Always alone in the flat in the Rue Dragon. That was the arrangement, no visitors. Alone, knowing no one, waiting for him. Seeing no one for months when he was away . . I waited. Finally, it was finished with him. Between sixty and twenty-five there is no democracy, I pushed for equality, I fought him fiercely, he married again.

The move stirred up a parliamentary storm. Although the bill finally passed, the manner in which the Liberals, and particularly Howe, treated Parliament and responded to criticism seriously undermined the position of the government. A year later, the Liberals were defeated, as was Howe. , then ruling the country and making the best of both possible worlds. Q. will join the tory Bandwagon—this is the first one they've ever missed—and boot Maurice out of power. For if they put a tory government into Ottawa, they will almost certainly put a Liberal one into Quebec.

34. John Diefenbaker's Conservative government was in place from 1957 to 1963. Q. May 10, 1957 My dear Marian: I suppose it is incorrect that I should write you this note, but you are a graduate student and a mature person and I ask you only to keep it to yourself until the lists are out for the exams. Your paper was the best I have ever received, and I rather expected it would be. God knows I never thought an examination paper would pull my thoughts together, but yours did, and I'm grateful. 361 had to get Dorothy's pictures framed, titled, priced and sent to the gallery for the show.

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