Rachel Wyatt
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Rachel Wyatt CM (14 October 1929 – 7 July 2024) was an English-Canadian dramatist, originally from Bradford, England.
Wyatt emigrated to Canada with her family in 1957. She wrote scores of plays for the BBC and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Wyatt was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2002 and awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003. Wyatt died on 7 July 2024, at the age of 94.[https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/timescolonist/name/rachel-wyatt-obituary?id=55526580 Rachel Wyatt obituary] Legacy
Novels
- The String Box (1970)
- The Rosedale Hoax (1977) {{ISBN|978-0887840616}}
- Foreign Bodies (1982) {{ISBN|978-0887840920}}
- Time in the Air (1985) {{ISBN|978-0887841460}}
- Mona Lisa Smiled a Little (1999) {{ISBN|978-0889821804}}
- Time's Reach (2003) {{ISBN|978-0889822054}}
Short story collections
- The Day Marlene Dietrich Died (1996) {{ISBN|978-0889821613}}
- The Last We Heard of Leonard (2004) {{ISBN|978-0889822108}}
- The Magician's Beautiful Assistant (2005) {{ISBN|978-0973688221}}
Biographies
- Agnes Macphail{{cite web |url=http://www.dundurn.com/books/agnes_macphail |title=Agnes Macphail {{!}} www.dundurn.com |website=www.dundurn.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010163656/http://dundurn.com/books/agnes_macphail |archive-date=2010-10-10}} (2000) Dundurn Press {{ISBN|978-0968360156}}
Sources
- Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
References
External links
- [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/literaryarchives/027011-200.144-e.html Literary archives]
- [https://archive.today/20070930055343/http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=6142 Order of Canada]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071009193446/http://www.hedgerowpress.com/book/mba/ The Magician's Beautiful Assistant]
- [http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/contributors/vwxyz/wyatt_r/ Banff Centre]
- [http://www.abcbookworld.com/?state=view_author&author_id=1691 List of Books, Plays, Readings, Awards, etc]
- [http://www.dundurn.com/books/agnes_macphail Agnes Macphail by Rachel Wyatt]
- Archives of Rachel Wyatt [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3673567&lang=eng (Rachel Wyatt fonds, R11832)] are held at Library and Archives Canada
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Category:Writers from Bradford
Category:English dramatists and playwrights
Category:Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Category:English emigrants to Canada
Category:English women writers
Category:20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Category:Canadian women novelists
Category:20th-century Canadian novelists
Category:Canadian women short story writers
Category:British women short story writers
Category:20th-century Canadian women writers
Category:20th-century Canadian short story writers
Category:20th-century English women
Category:20th-century English people
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