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Bibliography of Works about Sheila Watson

Pivato, Joseph. "Sheila Watson in Edmonton: A Student Perspective." Sheila Watson: Essays on Her Works. ed. J. Pivato. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2015.

Books

Scobie, Stephen. Sheila Watson. Toronto: ECW Press, 1985.

Bowering, George. Ed. Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Kempville, Ontario: Golden Dog Press, 1985.

Essays

Lovesey, Oliver. "The Place of the Journey in Randolph Stow’s To The Islands and Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook." Ariel 27.3 (July 1996).

Kreisel, Henry. "Sheila Watson in Edmonton." Figures in a Ground: Canadian Essays on Modern Literature Collected in Honor of Sheila Watson. Eds. Diane Bessai and David Jackel. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1978.

Willmott, Glenn. "The Nature of Modernism in Deep Hollow Greek." Canadian Literature 146 (1995).

Biographies, Profiles, Obituaries and Tributes

Bennett, Donna and Russell Brown, eds. “Sheila Watson.” An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Vol. II. Toronto: Oxford UP, Ó1983; rpr. with corrections 1991. 1-2.

Bessai, Diane and David Jackel, eds. “Sheila Watson: A biography.” Figures in a Ground: Canadian Essays on Modern Literature Collected in Honor of Sheila Watson. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, Ó1978. 1-3. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 3-5.

Brown, Russell, Donna Bennett & Nathalie Cooke, eds. “Sheila Watson.” An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Rev. & Abr. ed. Toronto: Oxford UP, Ó1990. 336.

Davey, Frank. “Watson, Sheila.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Gen Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1983. 822-23. Rev. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. 2nd ed. Gen. Ed. Eugene Benson and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1997. 1169-70.

Edwards, Caterina. "Sheila Watson: The Habit of Mentoring." Sheila Watson: Essays on Her Works. ed. J. Pivato. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2015.

Exner, Raquel. “City author left her mark.” The Edmonton Journal (4 Feb. 1998): A6.

Flahiff, F. T. Always someone to kill the doves: A Life of Sheila Watson. Edmonton: NeWest Press, Ó 2005.

Flahiff, Fred. “Sheila Doherty Watson.” Globe and Mail [“Fact & arguments: lives lived”] (12 Feb. 1998): A24.

Kreisel, Henry. “Sheila Watson in Edmonton.” Figures in a Ground: Canadian Essays on Modern Literature Collected in Honor of Sheila Watson. Ed. Diane Bessai and David Jackel. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, Ó1978. 4-6. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 7-8.

Grady, Wayne. “Sheila Watson.” The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Wayne Grady. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin Books, Ó1982. 34.

Hamilton, Mary G. "Brief Biography of Sheila Watson." Sheila Watson: Essays on Her Works. ed. J. Pivato. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2015.

Harrison, Dick. “Sheila Watson.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 60: Canadian Writers Since 1960, Second Series. Ed. W.H. New. Detroit: Gale Research, Ó1987. 378-81.

Mandel, Charles. “Remarkable Watsons remembered: Late novelist Sheila and professor Wilfred to be paid tribute today at University of Alberta.” The Edmonton Journal (29 April 1998): C3.

_____________. “Watsons set off sparks: U of A honours avant-garde husband and wife.” The Edmonton Journal (3 May 1998): F7.

Marchand, Philip. “Inspired a generation: Influential novelist Sheila Watson dies.” The Toronto Star (3 Feb. 1998, Final Edition): F5. Rpr. through The Canadian Press: “Canada loses one of its literary greats.” The Edmonton Journal (4 Feb., 1998): C4; “Watson penned ‘holy book for Canadian writers’.” The Halifax Daily News (4 Feb. 1998, Daily Edition): 28; etc.

McMaster, Geoff. “Inventing the Meaning: Sheila Doherty Watson (1909-1998).” New Trail 53.3 (Winter 1998/99): 23-24.

______________. “Watson set the stage for a generation of Canadian writers.” University of Alberta Folio (30 October, 1998): 10.

Melnyk, George. The Literary History of Alberta. Vol. II. Edmonton AB: University of Alberta Press, © 1999. 12-15, passim.

______. "Touching Sheila Watson: Always someone to kill the doves." Sheila Watson: Essays on Her Works. ed. J. Pivato. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2015.

Morash, Gordon. “History kind to Watson: Canadian author’s work stands test of time.” The Edmonton Journal (19 April 1998: Final Edition): F7.

Moritz, Albert & Theresa. From “Ontario: Toronto: 3,” “Alberta: Calgary,” “Alberta: Edmonton,” “British Columbia: Dog Creek,” “British Columbia: Nanaimo,” “British Columbia: New Westminster,” “British Columbia: Vancouver.” The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Canada. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1987. 163, 207, 209, 213-14, 216, 217, 223.

Neuman, Shirley. “Sheila Watson.” Profiles in Canadian Literature. IV. Ed. Jeffrey M. Heath. Toronto: Dundurn, 1982. 45-52.

“Obituary: Sheila Watson.” Quill & Quire 64.3 (March 1998): 13.

Renzetti, Elizabeth. “Sheila Watson: B.C. writer’s few books had powerful impact.” Globe and Mail (3 February 1998): C6.

Scobie, Stephen. “Sheila Watson (1909- ).” ECW’s Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists. Toronto: ECW Press, Ó 1993. 140-43. Extr. from “Sheila Watson.” Canadian Writers and Their Works: Fiction Series. Ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley. Vol. 7. Toronto: ECW Press, 1985. 257-312.

“Sheila Watson: Author was ahead of her time.” Ottawa Citizen (8 Feb. 1998): A8.

Critical Articles and Books

Atwood, Margaret. From “Ice Women vs Earth Mothers.” Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972. 202-03. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 41-42.

Barbour, Douglas. “Editors and Typesetters.” Sheila Watson: A Collection. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75): 184-87. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 9-12.

Betts, Gregory. "Media, McLuhan and the Dawn of the Electric Age in Sheila Watson's Deep Hollow Creek and The Double Hook." Essays on Canadian Writing 84 (Fall 2009): 254-64.

Blodgett, E.D. “Originary Grammarians: Laure Conan and Sheila Watson.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/ Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 15.1 (March 1988): 52-72.

Bowering, George. “Sheila Watson, Trickster.” The Canadian Novel, Vol. III: Modern Times. Ed. John Moss. Toronto: NC Press, Ó1982. 209-23. Rpr. in The Mask in Place: Essays on Fiction in North America. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, Ó1982. 97-111; and Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 187-99.

Bowering, Angela. “Figures Cut in Sacred Ground: Illuminati in The Double Hook.Line 2 (Fall 1983): 43-60.

Bowering, Angela. Figures Cut in Sacred Ground: Illuminati in The Double Hook. Western Canadian Documents Series. Gen. Ed. Shirley Neuman. Vol. VIII. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1988.

Corbett, Nancy J. “Closed Circle,” Canadian Literature 61 (Summer 1974): 46-53. Rpr. Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 115-121.

Davidson, Arnold E. “Coyote at Dog Creek.” Coyote Country. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1994. 58-73.

________________. “The Double Hook’s Double Hooks.” Canadian Literature 116 (Spring 1988): 29-41.

Deer, Glenn. “Miracle, Mystery, and Authority: ReReading The Double Hook.” Open Letter 6.8 (1987): 25-43. Rpr. as “The Double Hook: Miracle, Mystery, and Authority.” Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, © 1994. Ch. 2, 28-46.

Downton, Dawn Rae. “Messages and Messengers in The Double Hook,” Studies in Canadian Literature 4.2 (Summer 1979): 137-146. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 177-84.

Emery, Michael J. “Canadian Gothic: Sheila Watson's The Double Hook.” Canada Week Papers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Ed. Joseph Weldon Flory.
Knoxville: Center for International Education, 1994. 35-38.

Flahiff, F.T. Introduction [Ó 1984]. The Double Hook by Sheila Watson. New Canadian Library Classic Edition. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ó1959, 1966; 1984. [5–14]. Rpr. as Afterword [Ó1989]. The Double Hook by Sheila Watson. New Canadian Library edition. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ó1959, 1966; 1989. 119-30.

Godard, Barbara. “‘Between One Cliché and Another’: Language in The Double Hook,” Studies in Canadian Literature 3.2 (Summer 1978): 149-65. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 159-76.

Grace, Sherrill E. “Sheila Watson and the ‘Double Hook’ of Expressive Abstraction.” Regression and Apocalypse: Studies in North American Literary Expressionism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Ó1989. 185-209.

Grube, John. Introduction [1965, Ó1969]. The Double Hook by Sheila Watson. New Canadian Library edition. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ó1959, 1966. 5-14. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 73-82.

Jones, D.G. From “The Problem of Job.” Butterfly on Rock. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Ó1970. 85-87. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 43-45.

Kuester, Martin. “(Post-)Modern Bricolage: Classical Mythology in Sheila Watson’s Short Stories.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 42.3 (1994): 225-34.

Legge, Valerie. “Sheila Watson’s “Antigone”: Anguished Rituals and Public Disturbances.” Studies in Canadian Literature 17.2 (1992/3): 28-46.

Lennox, John Watt. “The Past: Themes and Symbols of Confrontation in The Double Hook and ‘Le Torrent,’” Journal of Canadian Fiction 2.1 (Winter 1973): 70-72. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 47-54.

Lovesey, Oliver. “The Place of the Journey in Randolph Stow's "To The Islands" and
Sheila Watson's The Double Hook.” Ariel 27.3 (July 1996): 45-63.

Mandel, Eli. From “Romance and Realism in Western Canadian Literature.” Another Time. Erin, Ontario: Press Porcépic, 1977. 60-63. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 145-48.

Marta, Jan. “Poetic Structures in the Prose Fiction of Sheila Watson,” Essays on Canadian Writing 17 (Spring 1980): 70-76. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 149-58.

Miller, Judith. “Rummaging in the Sewing Basket of the Gods: Sheila Watson’s ‘Antigone.’” Studies in Canadian Literature 12.2 (1987): 212-21.

Mitchell, Beverly S.S.A. “Association and Allusion in The Double Hook,” Journal of Canadian Fiction 2.1 (Winter 1973): 63-69. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 99-113.

Monkman, Leslie. “Coyote as Trickster in The Double Hook.” Canadian Literature 52 (Spring 1972): 70-76. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 63-69.

Morriss, Margaret. “The Elements Transcended,” Canadian Literature 42 (Autumn 1969): 56-71. Rpr. in The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century. Ed. George Woodcock. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ó1975. 186-201; and Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 83-97.
______. " 'No short cuts':" The Evolution of The Double Hook." Canadian Literature 173 (Summer 2002) : 54-72.

Moss, John. “The Double Hook and The Channel Shore.” Patterns of Isolation. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Ó1974. 166-88. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 123-42.

Moss, John. “Sheila Watson.” A Reader’s Guide to the Canadian Novel. McClelland and Stewart, Ó1981. 275-77.

Nesbitt, Bruce. “Displacement in Patrick White and Sheila Watson: Musical and Mythic Forms.” Australian/Canadian Literatures in English: Comparative Perspectives. Ed. Russell McDougall and Gillian Whitlock. Melbourne: Methuen, 1987. 151-69.

Northey, Margot. “Symbolic Grotesque: The Double Hook.” The Haunted Wilderness: The Gothic and Grotesque in Canadian Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976. 88-94. Rpr. as “Symbolic Grotesque” in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 55-61.

Paci, Francesca Romana. Postfazione [Afterword]. Il Doppio amo [The Double Hook]. By Sheila Watson. Trans. Francesca Romana Paci. Marina di Patti: Pungitopo, Ó1992.

Pennee, Donna Palmateer. “Canadian Letters, Dead Referents: Reconsidering the Critical Construction of The Double Hook.” Essays on Canadian Writing 51-52 (Winter 1993-Spring 1994): 233-57.

Persico, Gemma. Prefazione [Preface]. Il Doppio amo [The Double Hook]. By Sheila Watson. Trans. Francesca Romana Paci. Marina di Patti: Pungitopo, Ó1992.

Pivato, Joseph. "Forests of Symbols: Tay John and The Double Hook." Sheila Watson: Essays on Her Works. ed. J. Pivato. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2015.
_____. "Introduction: Scholarship on Sheila Watson," Sheila Watson: Essays on Her Works. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2015.
[Publisher’s Note to the First Edition]. The Double Hook. By Sheila Watson. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ó1959; rpr. 1965. 2-5.

Putzel, S. “Under Coyote's Eye: Indian Tales in Sheila Watson's The Double Hook.” Canadian Literature 102 (Autumn 1984) 7-16.

Rooke, Constance. “Women of The Double Hook.” Fear of the Open Heart: Essays on Contemporary Canadian Writing. Toronto: Coach House, 1989. 82-92.

Scobie, Stephen. “Directed Reading (Sheila Watson…).” Signature Event Cantext: Essays by Stephen Scobie. The Writer as Critic Series, II. Edmonton, NeWest Press, © 1989. 51-54.
_____________.“Sheila Watson.” Canadian Writers and Their Works: Fiction Series. Ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley. Vol. 7. Toronto: ECW Press, 1985. 257-312. Offprint: Sheila Watson and her Works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1984.
____________. “Watson, Sheila.” The Canadian Encyclopedia. 2000 ed. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ó1999.

Sparks, Cherina. “Fishing for Coyote in Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook.” Appendix B. Intersections: Essays in the Sciences and Humanities. Comp. Steven D. Scott, Don Perkins, Erika Rothwell. Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice Hall Allyn & Bacon Canada, 1999. 333-3

Thomas, Clara. “Sheila Watson.” Our Nature – Our Voices: A Guidebook to English-
Canadian Literature. Vol. 1. Toronto: New Press, 1972. 150-51.

Tiffin, Helen. “The Word and the House: Colonial Motifs in The Double Hook and The Cat and Shakespeare.” Literary Criterion 20.1 (1985): 204-26.

Turner, Margaret E. “Fiction, Break, Silence: Language. Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook.” Ariel. 18.2 (April 1987): 65-78.
_______________. “Sheila Watson: On Soft Ground.” Imagining Culture: New World Narrative and the Writing of Canada. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, Ó1995. 64-78.

Urquhart, Jane. Afterword. Deep Hollow Creek. By Sheila Watson.New Canadian Library edition. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999. 113-18.

Walbohm, Samara. "Representation of the 'Native Condition' in Watson's The Double Hook and Deep Hollow Creek." Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada. eds. Lianne Moyes, Licia Canton & Domenic Beneventi. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2004.

Willmott, Glenn. “The Nature of Modernism in Deep Hollow Creek.” Canadian Literature 146 (Autumn 1995): 30-48.
_____. "Sheila Watson, Aboriginal Discourse and Cosmoplolitan Modernism." Canadian Modernists Meet. ed. Dean Irvine. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005.

Yakovenko, Sergiy. "The Power of Silence: The Genotext in Sheila Watson's 'Rough Answer'," Sheila Watson: Essays on Her Works. ed. J. Pivato. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2015.

Selected Reviews & Review Articles

Bowering, George. “Narrative Valley.” [Rev. of Deep Hollow Creek.] Canadian Literature 136 (Spring 1993): 132-34.

Broughton, Katheryn. “Watson, Sheila: Deep Hollow Creek. cm 20.5 (October 1992): 277.

Child, Philip. “A Canadian Prose Poem.” [Rev. of The Double Hook.] Dalhousie Review 39.3 (Fall 1959): 233-36. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 31-34.

Currie, Sheldon. “Deep Hollow Creek, a novel, Sheila Watson…. The Promised Land, Stories of Cape Breton, Tessie Gillis….” Antigonish Review 91 (Fall 1992): 31-35.

Glover, Douglas. “Elegant Concisions.” [Rev. of Deep Hollow Creek.] Books in Canada 21.4 (May 1992): 47-48.

Gose, Elliot. “Coyote and Stag.” [Rev. of The Double Hook and of Walk through the Valley by Edward McCourt.] Canadian Literature 1 (Summer 1959): 78-80. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 19-21.

Grady, Wayne. “The Riddles of the Shrinks.” [Rev. of Four Stories by Sheila Watson.] Books in Canada (February 1980): 8.

Hughes, Isabelle. Left Hook, Right Hook, KO!” [Rev. of The Double Hook.] Globe and Mail (16 May 1959): 16.

Ingham, David. “Palimpsests & Pataphysics.” [Rev. of Five Stories and of Strappado by Karl Jirgens.] Canadian Literature 110 (Autumn 1986): 156-57.

McPherson, Hugo. “An Important New Voice.” [Rev. of The Double Hook.] Tamarack Review 12 (Summer 1959): 85-88. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 23-25.

Sandler, Linda. “Sheila Watson as Lewisite Critic.” [Rev. of Sheila Watson: A Collection.] Canadian Literature 70 (Autumn 1976): 91-93.

Stuewe, Paul. “Four Stories, Sheila Watson.” Quill and Quire 46.4 (April 1980): 35.

Summerhaves, Don. “Glory and Fear.” [Rev. of The Double Hook andof Execution by Colin McDougall.] Alphabet 3 (December 1961): 47-51. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. George Bowering, ed. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 27-30.

Theall, D.F. “A Canadian Novella.” [Rev. of The Double Hook.] Canadian Forum 39 (July 1959): 78-80. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. George Bowering, ed. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 35-38.

Thomas, Joan. “Deep Hollow Creek by Sheila Watson.” Prairie Fire 14.2 (Summer 1993): 98-99.

Young, Gerri. “Watson, Sheila. The Double Hook….” cm 17.4 (July 1989): 178.

Theses

Bowering, Angela May. “Illuminati in The Double Hook: Figures cut in Sacred Ground.” M.A. Thesis. Burnaby, B.C.: Simon Fraser University, 1982.

De Fehr, Ruth. “The Residue of Myth: a Study of Sheila Watson’s Five Stories and Gwendolyn MacEwen’s Noman. M.A. thesis. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, 1991.

Lord, Marie-Linda. “Le mode symboliste dans Les Fous de Bassan d’Anne Hébert et The Double Hook de Sheila Watson.” M.A. thesis. Sherbrooke, Qué: Université de Sherbrooke, 1987.

McKenzie, Kirsten. “Positive Values: the Figure of the Trickster as a Catalyst for Community in Selected Works by Sheila Watson and Tomson Highway. M.A. Thesis. Wolfville, N.S.: Acadia University, 1995.

Morriss, Margaret E. “The Image of the Family: its Nature and Function in Three Canadian Novels: Two Generations [by] Frederick Philip Grove, The Double Hook [by] Sheila Watson, [and] Two Solitudes [by] Hugh MacLennan. [M.A. Thesis?]. Toronto: University of Toronto, Ó1968. Rpr. 1981.

Nilsson, Joakim Ake. “Mediating Rituals: Meta-myth, Counter-myth, and the Narrative Structure of The Double Hook.” M.A. Thesis. Burnaby, B.C.: Simon Fraser University, 1991.

Pennee, Donna Palmateer. “Femicide in the Critical Construction of The Double Hook: a Case Study in the Interrelations of Modernism, Literary Nationalism, and Cultural Maturity.”Ph.D. Thesis. Montreal: McGill University, 1994.

Rempel, Geoff S. “Modernist Visual Aesthetics and The Double Hook.” M.A. Thesis. Montreal: McGill University, 1998.

Rowell, Carolyn. “The Projected Consciousness of The Double Hook.” B.A. Thesis. Lennoxville, Que.: Bishop’s University, 1979.

Simpson-McIntyre, Janet. “Characteristics of Trickster Tales Found in What the Crow Said and The Double Hook”. M.A. Thesis. Sherbrooke, Qué.: Université de Sherbrooke, 1992.

Turner, Margaret. “A New Found Language in the New Found World: Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook.” [M.A.] Thesis. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1982.
______________. “Writing the New World: Language and Silence in Richardson, Grove, Watson, and Kroetsch.” Ph.D. Thesis. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta, 1986.

Vincent, Douglas George Arnold. “Playing with Cultures: the Role of Coyote in Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook and Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water.” M.A. Thesis. Kingston: Queen’s University, 1999.

Ward, Marianne. “Communication/Communion/Community: A Revaluation of Female Characters in Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook.” Thesis. Kingston, Ont.: Queen’s University, 1990.

Selected Websites

“A & S Professor is Guardian of Sheila Watson Legacy.” The A & S News. University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science.
http://www.artsandscience.toronto.edu/infonews/asnews/previous/may99/flahiff.html

Broughton, Katheryn. “Watson, Sheila: Deep Hollow Creek.” cm 20.5 (October 1992): 277.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchives/vol20no5/rev277deephollowcreek.html

Chapman, Jeremy. “Symbolism and Imagery used in Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook
http://www.zarquonmedia.com/writing/essay/imagery_in_sheila_watsons_double_hook.html

Jackson, Jenny. “Life is tough. The land is tough. Why shouldn’t a novel about it be tough too?”
http://www.canada.com/shopping/bookstore/spotlight/doublehookaug20.html

Legge, Valerie. “Sheila Watson’s “Antigone”: Anguished Rituals and Public Disturbances.” Studies in Canadian Literature.
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol17_2/&filename=Legge.htm

Miller, Judith. “Rummaging in the Sewing Basket of the Gods: Sheila Watson’s “Antigone.” Studies in Canadian Literature.http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol12_2/&filename=Miller.htm

Pivato, Joseph. “Sheila Watson.” http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/watson/watson.html

Watson, Sheila. “And the Four Animals,” McLuhan Studies: Premiere Issue
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/mcluhan-studies/v1_iss1/1_1art8.htm

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