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Margaret Lawrence: Setting Her House In Order, Marion Elizabeth Markham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Margaret Laurence orders the world around her through the telling of story, and she shows us, in The Stone Angel, A Bird in the House and The Diviners, strong women ordering the world around them. The thesis analyzes the tales Laurence tells through Hagar Shipley, Vanessa MacLeod, and Morag Gunn respectively, examining the freedom gathered in these tellings. Christian symbols It also considers the complementary Judeo-and names and allusions through which their captivities and freedoms are eventually seen.

Each of the main characters face discrimination as woman, but each is transformed from slave to free woman, and this development of …