Jane Urquhart fonds [textual record]. 1974-1981.

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Jane Urquhart fonds [textual record]. 1974-1981.

The fonds consists of a single diary kept by Jane Urquhart from 1974 to 1981, before she began her writing career, and documents primarily several trips to Europe taken with Tony Urquhart. This diary served as a sketchbook, journal and trip diary, and contains drawings and sketches, photographs, ephemera, plant material, etc. Its 258 pages contain 71 sketches, drawings and watercolours including 27 by Tony Urquhart, 32 by Jane Urquhart, 2 by Michael Ondaatje and 10 by other artists.

10 cm. of textual records.

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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-....

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Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He moved to Canada in 1962, studied at Bishop's University in Quebec, the University of Toronto, and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, then became a university lecturer. He taught at the University of Western Ontario, 1966?-1973? He is known as a poet, playwright and novelist. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 (filmed, 1996). From the description of Michael Ondaatje collection. [ca. 1969]. (University of Victoria Libraries). W...

Urquhart, Jane

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Jane Urquhart was born in 1949 in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and received her education in Toronto and Guelph. A novelist and poet, her work has been published since 1982, and includes False Shuffles (1982), The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan (1984), The Whirlpool (1986), Storm Glass (1987), Changing Heaven (1990), Away (1993) and The Underpainter (1997). Jane Urquhart has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa, at Memorial University, and most recently in 1997 at the Univers...

Urquhart, Tony

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