Mavis Gallant
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From  A Canadian StoryFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1944 profile of Gabrielle Roy’s debut novel, Bonheur d’Occasion, and how it paints a vivid portrait of Montreal’s St. Henri District. | Mavis Gallant | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From A Wonderful CountryFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1946 profile of a young real estate assistant tasked with finding a furnished house for a Hungarian immigrant. | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Annotations and NotesFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter includes annotations and notes. | Mavis Gallant | 41 | 2024 | $4.10 Add |
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From Are they CanadiansFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1947 article examining Canada’s failure to integrate immigrants into a shared national identity. | Mavis Gallant | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From Bachelors Aren’t All EligibleFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1948 article examining why men over thirty-two remain unmarried, interviewing thirty bachelors about their views on marriage, independence, and companionship. | Mavis Gallant | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From Don’t Call Me War BrideFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1946 profile of Elizabeth Mackenzie, an English war bride settling into suburban Montreal. | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From DP Test Case: A FailureFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1948 article examining the failed placement of one hundred Polish displaced persons at the Dionne Spinning Mill in St. Georges de Beauce, Quebec. | Mavis Gallant | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From DreamsFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1948 article examining the long history of dream interpretation from biblical accounts and ancient Siam through Plato, Aristotle, and ultimately Sigmund Freud. | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Duncan & MacLennan: WritersFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1945 profile of the married Canadian authors Dorothy Duncan and Hugh MacLennan, who kept their work entirely separate. | Mavis Gallant | 2 | 2024 | $0.20 Add |
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From Family DoctorFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1948 profile of Doctor Georges Hall, a general practitioner who served Montreal’s Point St. Charles district for over fifty years. | Mavis Gallant | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From Five Not So Carefree TeenagersFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1948 article on the seclusion of the Dionne quintuplets in Callander, Ontario, in 1949, and the tensions their childhood public display created with the … | Mavis Gallant | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From French Canada’s Dorothy DixFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1946 profile on Colette, the pseudonymous advice columnist behind the "Courrier de Colette" in Montreal’s La Presse, the French-Canadian … | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Freud or Double Talk?From: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1947 satirical essay on psychoanalytic language and how the psychiatrist as a stock character saturated mid-1940s popular culture. | Mavis Gallant | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Frontier FarmersFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1947 article examining the rapid colonization of the Abitibi region in northern Quebec during the 1930s Depression. | Mavis Gallant | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
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From Give the Kid a Gory StoryFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1946 article on the debate over violent fairy tales and their suitability for young children. | Mavis Gallant | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From I Don’t Cry AnymoreFrom: Montreal Standard Time |
This chapter is Mavis Gallant’s 1950 article examining how roughly 40,000 displaced persons from post-war Europe resettled in Canada through a compulsory domestic service scheme. | Mavis Gallant | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
