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Alice Munro
About Alice
Munro
| 1931 |
Born Alice Anne Laidlaw in Wingham, a small town in southwestern
Ontario. |
| 1949 |
Majored in English at
the University of Western Ontario, where she began to
take her writing seriously. |
| 1951 |
Left before graduating from the University in order to marry James Munro and moved to Vancouver. |
| 1963 |
The Munros moved to Victoria and started their bookstore, which remains one of the best bookstores on Vancouver Island. |
| 1972 |
Ended her first marriage and returned to southwestern Ontario. |
| 1965 |
Married again to a geographer, named
Gerald Fremlin. The Fremlins lived on a farm in Huron County. |
Culture
Background
The Great Depression
Throughout the years of 1929 to 1939, there was a world wide Depression and Canada was one of the worst affected countries. Due to this, many people were out of work and money and food began to run low.
Alice Munro's personal experience
Alice Munro was born during the great depression. Munro's family, like many families around her, worked hard just to survive. Like many of the people during this time, families worked hard to no avail. With the country in such a rough state, everyone was doing what they could to survive. Munro's own family had tried raising turkeys, selling wares door-to-door, and fox-farming.
Religion
The influx of Catholics into Munro's small rural
town brought about some resentment and
misunderstanding. The wave of Irish immigrants was something new to the people of
this area. Munro was taught at an early age that Catholics were different. In her short story,
"Walker Brother's Cowboy," the narrator is raised to believe that a Catholic woman "digs
with the wrong foot.¡¨
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