Laurence, Margaret

Margaret Laurence
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Name	Laurence, Margaret Gender: F
Birthname	Wemyss, Jean Margaret
born on	18 July 1926 at 19:30 (= 7:30 PM )
Place	Neepawa, Manitoba (CAN), 50n13, 99w29
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	Bio/autobiography Rodden Rating B Collector: Starkman
Astrology data	25°38' 06°27 Asc. 07°24'

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Margaret Laurence : From autobiography
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Alternative birthtime
From autobiography
Date	18 July 1926 at 07:30 (= 07:30 AM )
Place	Neepawa, MB (CAN), 50n13, 99w29
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Astrology data	25°09' 00°12 Asc. 23°21'

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Margaret Laurence
photo: David Laurence, license cc-by-sa-3.0

Biography

Canadian novelist and short story writer, one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.

Diagnosed with lung cancer she committed suicide in her home on 5 January 1987.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

• Family : Change in family responsibilities 1952 (Birth of daughter, Jocelyn)

• Family : Change in family responsibilities 1955 (Birth of son, David)

• Death by Suicide 5 January 1987 (Age 60)
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Source Notes

Starkman quotes the Canadian astrologer Bjorkstrand quoting The Life of Margaret Laurence by James King (Knopf Canada, 2012), p. 14: "It was to these two people that Margaret Laurence was born on July 28, 1926 at Nepawa General Hospital at 7:30 on a Sunday evening."

Sy Scholfield quotes a different time of 7:30 AM from her autobiography, Dance on the Earth: A Memoir by Margaret Laurence (McClelland & Stewart, 1989), p. 34: "I was born on July 18, 1926, at the Neepawa General Hospital, at 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday. My mother must have felt, as I did when I had my own children, the truly miraculous nature of birth. A new human being. What an astounding process it is."

Both books cite her mother's baby book.

Categories

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Lung)

• Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Lung (Cancer)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two)

• Personal : Death : Suicide

• Vocation : Writers : Children's literature

• Vocation : Writers : Fiction

• Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction