Jane Urquhart

Neta Gordon (Brock University)

Ed. by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 21 Jun 1949
Activity 1982-ongoing

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Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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Novelist
Poet

Other

Story-writer

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Emerging in the past decade as one of Canada’s most important and celebrated writers, Jane Urquhart has won national and international acclaim for her work. Urquhart was born in 1949 in Little Long Lac, Ontario, a small mining town, the second of three children. Her father, Walter Carter, was a prospector and mining engineer, and her mother, born Marion Quinn, a member of an extended Irish family. Urquhart acknowledges her debt as a writer to both the “prospecting stories [that] were 2/10s fact and 8/10s embellishment”, and the “oral traditions” of her mother’s family. When she was six, Urquhart and her family moved to Toronto, Ontario, where she attended Havergal College. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Guelph in 1971 and during her studies…

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Citation: Gordon, Neta. "Jane Urquhart". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 June 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5329, accessed 24 November 2024.]