Marian Fowler
Marian Fowler (née Little; 15 October 1929-June 12, 2020) was a Canadian literary scholar and biographer who was best known for writing women's biographies.
Life and work
Fowler was born in Newmarket, Ontario, to Dorothy and Robert Little in 1929.[1] Initially educated at the University of Toronto, Fowler worked as a copywriter before marrying Rodney Fowler, a cardiologist, in 1953 with whom she had two children.[2]. In 1978 she and Rodney Fowler divorced.
Fowler returned to the University of Toronto where she earned an MA (1965) and a PhD (1970) which dealt with Jane Austen's novels.[3] She worked as a professor of English literature at York University from 1971 to 1982.
Fowler died in Toronto, Ontario on June 12, 2020.[4][5]
Awards
Fowler won the 1983 Canadian Biography Award from the Association for Canadian Studies for her second published biography, Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan (1983).[6]
In a Gilded Cage: From Heiress to Duchess, a group biography, won the 1993 Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction. In a Gilded Cage explores the lives of five American heiresses who married British artistocrats, specifically Consuelo Vanderbilt, Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester, Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore, and May Goelet.
Works
- The Embroidered Tent: Five Gentlewomen in Early Canada (1982, Anansi)
- Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan (1983, Anansi)
- Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj (1987, Viking)
- Blenheim: Biography of a Palace (1989, Viking)
- In a Gilded Cage: From Heiress to Duchess (1994, St. Martin's)
- The Way She Looks Tonight: Five Women of Style (1996, St. Martin's)
- Hope: Adventures of a Diamond (2002)
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- ^ https://www.cmreviews.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol12no3/redney.html