Munro was expected to continue the farming business, but when Robert Laidlaw died in 1976 his novel The McGregors: a Novel of an Ontaria Pioneer Family, came out posthumously. She sufferedįrom Parkinson's disease and died in 1959. Laidlaw (née Chamney), Munro's mother, had been a teacher. Had raised foxes and minks and worked as a watch-man. Before taking up farming, Munro's father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, Prose writer James Hogg (1770-1835), a friend of Byron, Wordsworth, and Scots Presbyterian Laidlaws and the Irish Anglican Chamneys – hadĪrrived in Upper Canada after the end of the Napoleonic wars.Īmong the Laidlaw relatives left behind in Scotland was the poet and Grew up on a farm with her sister and brother. People were mainly in the world for her to boss around." (from Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, 2001)Īlice Munro was born Alice Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario, where The time she looked out at her audience as if she believed that other Show that her religion was supposed to make people happy, but most of Many of her stories deal with the lives of women, but her People, often revealing in the process hidden meanings and personal Munroĭescribes sensitively the lifestyles, customs, and values of ordinary Sense that they were passive and powerless to change their lives. Munro has been characterized as aĬanadian Chekhov, though her characters are not Chekhovian in the A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĬanadian short story writer and novelist, who received the
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