# Elsie Fry Laurence: Collected Poetry and Selected Prose, Vol. 1

By **Eli MacLaren**

- ISBN-13: 9780228029182
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 312
- Published: 13 Oct 2026
- Language: en
- Categories: History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction, Literary, Regional & Cultural, World Literature, Canadian

## About this book

Elsie Fry Laurence: Collected Poetry and Selected Prose, Volume 1, is a comprehensive study and anthology focusing on the life of a pivotal Canadian author. Eli MacLaren examines how Elsie Fry Laurence influenced writers like Margaret Laurence by balancing authorship with the realities of domestic life in western Canada. This work of literary history and criticism utilizes archival research and interviews to contextualize her role in the Canadian literary scene from the World Wars through the postwar era.

This volume of Canadian literature brings together the complete short fiction and published poetry of Fry Laurence. The writing explores themes of grief, war, and the roles of women in sustaining communities. Within the categories of regional and cultural studies, the text analyzes the impact of early twentieth-century settlement and the persistence of Dakelh and Nehiyawak peoples on the landscape of western Canadian women's writing.

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