Robertson Davies (Magill’s Literary Annual 1996)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith Skelton Grant
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1913-1993
- Setting: Ontario, Canada (notably Thamesville, Renfrew, Kingston, Peterborough, and Toronto); London, Oxford, and Wales
- Principal Characters: Robertson Davies, Florence McKay Davies, Rupert Davies, Fred Davies, Arthur Davies, Brenda Newbold Matthews Davies, Miranda Davies, Jennifer Davies Surridge, Rosamond Cunnington
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Literature, Novelists, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: London, England, Toronto, Canada, Wales, Oxford, England
Readers of Robertson Davies: Man of Myth will quickly conclude that its author, Judith Skelton Grant, is the sort of person who never throws anything away. This characteristic accounts for both this biography’s greatest strengths and its most significant shortcomings.
On the one hand, Grant has collected, organized, preserved, and presented remarkable quantities of primary material about her subject, clearly Canada’s most prolific and probably most widely recognized contemporary author. Grant’s research on Davies has already resulted in the three useful collections...
[The entire page is 1824 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
