Mavis Gallant (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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The distinguishing feature in the life of Mavis Gallant, an Anglo-Canadian born Mavis de Trafford Young in French-speaking Montreal, is that her artist father died while she was away at school. Her mother promptly remarried, leaving the child with strangers. This was the beginning of a solitary and unsettled existence for the girl who, starting at a French-speaking convent in her native city (Gallant was not a Catholic), attended seventeen different schools in Canada and the United States. By her own admission, the isolation and transiency she experienced when...
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