Margaret Laurence (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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From her own experience, Laurence created a story cycle consisting of five books, each of which features a strong female protagonist. Of the five, The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966), and The Diviners (1974) were all denounced as immoral. Published during a time of rising Canadian conservatism, The Diviners was subjected to particularly vicious attacks. Although it won Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Medal for Fiction and the coveted Molson Prize, the novel became the focus of a 1976 effort by right-wing Protestant...
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