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Sheila Watson


Born
in New Westminster, British Colombia, Canada
October 24, 1909

Died
February 01, 1998


Born Sheila Martin Doherty, she grew up on the grounds of the provincial mental hospital where her father, Dr. Charles Edward Doherty, was the superintendent until his death in 1922. After studying at Vancouver's Convent of the Sacred Heart, Sheila Doherty finished her university studies at the University of British Columbia in 1933. She then worked as an elementary and high school teacher throughout British Columbia – including two years in Dog Creek (1935–1937), which served as a basis for her first novel, Deep Hollow Creek. She married Canadian poet Wilfred Watson in 1941.

Watson wrote The Double Hook between 1952 and 1954 in Calgary and revised it during a year-long stay in Paris. It was published in 1959 and was instantly recognized as ...more

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The Double Hook
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Deep Hollow Creek
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A Father's Kingdom: The Com...
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Museums and their Communities
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Five Stories
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“The word is a flame burning in a dark glass.”
― Sheila Watson, Deep Hollow Creek
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“Who keeps chawing at a man but a man's own self?”
― Sheila Watson, The Double Hook
tags: guilty-conscience, internal-struggle, nagging, self-doubt, self-sabotage
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“The thing about stairs is that they separate you from things.”
― Sheila Watson, The Double Hook
tags: fact, pithy-observation, stairs, wry-comment
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