Bronwen Wallace

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Bronwen Wallace


Born
in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
May 26, 1945

Died
August 25, 1989

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Wallace was born in Kingston, Ontario. She attended Queen's University, Kingston (B.A. 1967, M.A. 1969). In 1970, she moved to Windsor, Ontario, where she founded a women's bookstore and became active in working class and women's activist groups. In 1977, she returned to Kingston, where she worked at a women's shelter and taught at St. Lawrence College and Queen's. She wrote a weekly column for the Kingston Whig-Standard. In 1988, she was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario.

Her collections testify to her social activism involving women's rights, civil rights, and social policy. A primary focus of her work was violence against women and children.
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People You'd Trust Your Lif...

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Common Magic

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Keep That Candle Burning Br...

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The Stubborn Particulars of...

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Signs of the Former Tenant

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Collected Poems of Bronwen ...

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People You'd Trust Your Lif...

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Arguments With the World

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Lieu des origines

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“It's all in the opposition of the thumbs. For all we know, whales sing in three act plays—but they can't write them down.”
Bronwen Wallace