margaret laurence

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Definition of margaret laurence in English English dictionary

orig. Jean Margaret Wemyss born July 18, 1926, Neepawa, Man., Can. died Jan. 5, 1987, Lakefield, Ont. Canadian writer. She lived in Africa with her engineer husband in the 1950s; her experiences there provided material for her early works. She is best known for depicting the lives of women struggling for self-realization in the male-dominated world of western Canada. Her works include the novels The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966), and The Fire-Dwellers (1969) and the stories collected in A Bird in the House (1970) and The Diviners (1974). In the 1970s she turned to writing children's books

Hyphenation

Mar·ga·ret Lau·rence

Turkish pronunciation

märgrıt lôrıns

Pronunciation

/ˈmärgrət ˈlôrəns/ /ˈmɑːrɡrət ˈlɔːrəns/