![]() ![]() ![]() In 1976, she and her husband moved to Nanaimo, where they died in 1998. In 1984 Watson edited the Collected Poems of Miriam Mandel. White Pelican Publications published Lions at her Face, the first book by Miriam Mandel, which won the Governor General's Award in 1973. "In Edmonton the Watsons became part of an active circle of writers and established the literary magazine, The White Pelican in 1970 along with Douglas Barbour, Stephen Scobie, John Orrell, Dorothy Livesay, and artist Norman Yates." Watson remained the founding editor of the White Pelican for its brief existence (1971–1975). In 1961, Watson was hired as a professor of English at the University of Alberta. However, because they would not give her veto rights over the script, she turned them down. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation approached Watson to option the film rights to The Double Hook. called it 'the most brilliant piece of fiction ever written in Canada'." ![]() McLuhan, as well as Yale formalist Cleanth Brooks, saw it as a literary landmark ushering the Canadian novel out of its regional confines. "All 3,000 copies of the initial print run were sold. In 1959 The Double Hook was published, and instantly recognized as a modern classic. By then, though, Watson was already well known in Canadian academe. Her doctoral dissertation, Wyndham Lewis and Expressionism was finally completed in 1965. Unusually, she was older than her PhD advisor by two years, her birth year being 1909 and his being 1911. In 1957 Watson began doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, writing her thesis on Wyndham Lewis under the direction of Marshall McLuhan. Day Lewis at Chatto & Windus, and Rupert Hart-Davis all turned it down." Watson wrote The Double Hook between 19 in Calgary and revised it during a year-long stay in Paris, from 1955 to 1956. From 1948 to 1950 she was a sessional lecturer at the University of British Columbia. Sheila Watson taught at Moulton Ladies College in Toronto between 19. She married Canadian poet Wilfred Watson in 1941. 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 second novel, Deep Hollow Creek. Īfter studying at Vancouver's Convent of the Sacred Heart, Sheila Doherty finished her university studies at the University of British Columbia, where she received her B.A. Charles Edward Doherty, was the superintendent until his death in 1922. She grew up on the grounds of the provincial mental hospital where her father, Dr. She was born Sheila Martin Doherty at New Westminster, British Columbia. She "is best known for her modernist novel, The Double Hook." The Canadian Encyclopedia declares that: "Publication of Watson's novel The Double Hook (1959) marks the start of contemporary writing in Canada." Life Sheila Martin Watson (24 October 1909 – 1 February 1998 ) was a Canadian novelist, critic and teacher. University of British Columbia (B.A., M.A.)
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