Dorothy Duncan MacLennan

Dorothy Duncan MacLennan (* 1903 in East Orange , † April 22, 1957 in Montréal ) was a Canadian writer of American origin. She wrote under her maiden name Dorothy Duncan.

Life and work

Duncan was born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1903 to Dorothy and Edwin L. Duncan . She grew up in St. Louis , Denver, and eventually the Chicago metropolitan area . In her childhood she suffered from rheumatic fever , which damaged her heart valves . In 1925 she graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science . She then worked for an advertising agency before starting her own small business. Duncan also ran a grammar school office in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. She spent the summers in Europe , where she worked for an American travel company.

On the return trip to Canada in 1932 she met her future husband Hugh MacLennan on board the SS Pennland . After the two married in Wilmette in 1936 , they moved to Montréal . In 1937 they jointly joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Party. In the same year they traveled through the Soviet Union and Scandinavia .

Duncan traveled a lot to get acquainted with Canada. Between 1939 and 1942 she published three semi-autobiographical books about her impressions and experiences in Canada. Partners in Three Worlds (1944), the biography of the Czech -kanadischen soldiers in January Rieger, who in the First and Second World War was fought, was awarded the 1946 Governor General's Awards for Non-Fiction Award.

When Duncan's health deteriorated significantly around 1947, she limited herself to writing short magazine articles and her diary, as well as painting and her husband's correspondence. In 1957 she died of cancer .

Works

You Can Live in an Apartment (1939)
Here's to Canada! (1941)
Bluenose: A Portrait of Nova Scotia (1942)
Partner in Three Worlds (1944)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Martha Slowe, "Dorothy Duncan", in: Kathryn Carter, The Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996 . University of Toronto Press, 2002 ISBN 978-0802081599 pp. 393-419.
↑ ^a ^b The Hugh MacLennan Papers Online Project: Chronology (1907-1939) at: digital.library.mcgill.ca, accessed on September 17, 2015 (English).
↑ Michael Gnarowski, "Chronology", in: Hugh MacLennan, Voices in Time . McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7735-2494-1 p. Xii. NB: Occasionally, Winnetka (Illinois) is given as the location of the wedding. a. in The Hugh MacLennan Papers Online Project . The Winnetka and Wilmette parishes are adjacent to each other in Cook County , Illinois.
^ Anne Innis Dagg, The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945 . Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0889203556 pp. 92-93.

personal data
SURNAME	Duncan MacLennan, Dorothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Orange
DATE OF DEATH	April 22, 1957
Place of death	Montréal

[slowe-1] Martha Slowe, "Dorothy Duncan", in: Kathryn Carter, The Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996 . University of Toronto Press, 2002 ISBN 978-0802081599 pp. 393-419.

[mcgill-2] The Hugh MacLennan Papers Online Project: Chronology (1907-1939) at: digital.library.mcgill.ca, accessed on September 17, 2015 (English).

[3] Michael Gnarowski, "Chronology", in: Hugh MacLennan, Voices in Time . McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7735-2494-1 p. Xii. NB: Occasionally, Winnetka (Illinois) is given as the location of the wedding. a. in The Hugh MacLennan Papers Online Project . The Winnetka and Wilmette parishes are adjacent to each other in Cook County , Illinois.

[4] Anne Innis Dagg, The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945 . Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0889203556 pp. 92-93.