- Sheila Watson (writer)
Sheila Watson (born Sheila Martin Doherty on
October 24 ,1909 , at New Westminster,British Columbia , died onFebruary 1 ,1998 at Nanaimo, British Columbia) was a Canadian novelist,critic andteacher .Watson studied at the
University of British Columbia and later at theUniversity of Toronto underMarshall McLuhan , where her thesis focused on the work of English painter and authorWyndham Lewis . Between 1933 and 1952 she worked as an elementary and high school teacher in New Westminster, Dog Creek, Mission City, Duncan, and Powell River, British Columbia. She also taught at Moulton Ladies College in Toronto between 1946 and 1949. Between 1949 and 1951 she was a sessional lecturer at theUniversity of British Columbia . In 1961, Watson was hired as a professor of English at theUniversity of Alberta . She retired in 1975.She is best known for her modernist
novel "The Double Hook " (1959), which was a seminal work in the development of contemporaryCanadian literature . She also published anovel "Deep Hollow Creek ", which she had written in the 1930s, in 1992. It was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. Watson was also a founding member of the short-lived arts journal "White Pelican".Watson was awarded the
Royal Society of Canada 'sLorne Pierce Medal in 1984.A biography, "Always Someone to Kill the Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson" by F.T. Flahiff was published in 2005.
The archives of Sheila Watson are currently preserved at the
University of St. Michael's College at theUniversity of Toronto .Bibliography
Novels
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The Double Hook " — 1959
*"Deep Hollow Creek" — 1992Short Stories
*"Four Stories" — 1979
*"Four Stories" — 1984
*"A Father's Kingdom" — 2004
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