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Bibliography of Works by Sheila Watson

Fiction

Book cover: White Pelican.

Doherty [Watson], Sheila. "Rough Answer." The Canadian Forum 18. 212 (Sept. 1938): 178-80.

Watson, Sheila. And the four animals. First draft, May 1980. Toronto: The Coach House Press MS Editions, 1980. Rpr. in Five Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1984. 71-76.

____________. "Antigone." The Tamarack Review (Spring 1959): 5-13. Rpr. in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 26-32; Four Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1979. 37-48; and Five Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1984. 41-54.

____________. "The Black Farm: A Modern Allegory." Queen's Quarterly (Summer 1956): 202-13. Rpr. as "The Black Farm" in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 16-25; Four Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1979. 19-36; and Five Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1984. 21-40.

____________. "Brother Oedipus." Queen's Quarterly (Summer 1954): 220-28. Rpr. Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 9-15; Four Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1979. 7-18; and Five Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1984. 7-20.

____________. Deep Hollow Creek. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, © 1992; New Canadian Library edition, 1999.

____________. Deep Hollow Creek [sound recording]. Toronto: CNIB, 1992.

____________. The Double Hook. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, © 1959; rpr. 1965; New Canadian Library ed., &© 1966; NCL Classic ed., 1984.

____________. The Double Hook [Braille]. Toronto: CNIB [197?].

____________. The Double Hook [sound recording]. Narr. Elise Goldsmith. Toronto: CNIB, [197?].

____________. The Double Hook [sound recording]. Narr. various. Toronto: CNIB, 1982.

____________. The Double Hook [sound recording]. [Peterborough: Ontario Audio Library Service, 1982].

____________. Dubbelkroken [The Double Hook]. Trans. Artur Lundkvist. Stockholm: Tidens Verlag, 1963.

____________. Il Doppio amo [The Double Hook]. Trans. Francesca Romana Paci. Marina di Patti: Pungitopo, © 1992.

____________. Five Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1984.

____________. Four Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1979. Rpr. in Five Stories. Toronto: Coach House Press, © 1984.

____________. "The Rumble Seat." Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter. 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 33-40. Rpr. in Four Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1979. 49-62; and Five Stories. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1984. 55-69.

____________. Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974.

____________. "Sheila Watson's Deep Hollow Creek" [2 excerpts with photographs from the Dog Creek period of Sheila Watson and her animals]. Brick: A Literary Journal 42/43 (Winter/Spring 1997): 24-29.

____________. Sous l'oeil de coyote [The Double Hook]. Trans. Arlette Francière. Montréal: Editions la Presse, © 1976.

Translations

Watson, Sheila, trans. "Be Fruitful and Multiply." [Trans. of "Le Peuplement de la Terre."] By Madeleine Ferron. Stories from Québec. Ed. Philip Stratford. Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, © 1974. 16-19.

____________. "Sugar Heart." [Trans. of "Coeur de sucre."] By Madeleine Ferron. Stories from Québec. Ed. Philip Stratford. Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, © 1974. 12-15.

Mary G. Hamilton prepared this bibliography. She would like to thank Robbie Chernish for his assistance.

Selected Fiction and Translations in Anthologies

Watson, Sheila. "And the Four Animals." Likely Stories: A Postmodern Sampler. Ed. George Bowering and Linda Hutcheon. Toronto: Coach House Press, © 1992. 299-301.

____________. "And the Four Animals." An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Vol. II. Ed. Donna Bennett and Russell Brown. Toronto: Oxford UP, © 1983; rpr. with corrections 1991. 2-3.

____________. "Antigone." An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Rev. & Abr. ed. Ed. Russell Brown, Donna Bennett & Nathalie Cooke. Toronto: Oxford UP, © 1990. 337-42.

____________. "Antigone." The Canadian Century: English-Canadian Writing Since Confederation. Volume 2: The Book of Canadian Prose. Ed. A.J.M. Smith. [Toronto]: Gage Educational Publishing, © 1973. 574-81.

____________. "Antigone." Fiction of Contemporary Canada. Ed. George Bowering. Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1980. 53-61.

____________. "Antigone." The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Michael Ondaatje. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Also published as From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories. Ed. Michael Ondaatje. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990; Vintage Canada Edition, 1995/2000. 241-49.

____________. "Antigone." The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English. Ed. Rosemary Sullivan. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford UP, 1999. 65-71.

____________. "Antigone." Stories by Canadian Women. Ed. Rosemary Sullivan. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1984. 154-61.

____________. "Be Fruitful and Multiply." [Trans. of "Le Peuplement de la Terre."] By Madeleine Ferron. Canadian Short Fiction: from Myth to Modern. Ed. W.H. New. Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall Canada, © 1986. 231-33.

____________. "The Black Farm." Stories from Western Canada. Ed. Rudy Wiebe. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, © 1972. 205-17.

____________. "Brother Oedipus." The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories. Ed. Wayne Grady. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin Books, © 1982. 35-42.

Nonfiction

Doherty [Watson], Sheila Martin. "The Ethics of the Spectator and the Tatler." M.A. Thesis. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, May 1933.

Watson, Sheila. "About Pelicans." white pelican 1.1 (Winter 1971): 2-4.

____________."Artist Ape as Crowd-master." Explorations. Ed. Marshall McLuhan. [Supplement to] The Varsity Graduate (May 1964): 50-53. Rpr. in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter, 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974.115-118.

____________. "Canada and Wyndham Lewis the Artist." Canadian Literature 35 (Winter 1968): 44-61. Rpr. in Wyndham Lewis in Canada. Ed. George Woodcock. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1971. 60-77; and Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 80-96.

____________. Foreword. The Work of Justice: the Trials of Robert Raymond Cook; The Story of the Last Man Hanged in Alberta. By J. [Jack Ferris] Pecover. Edmonton: Wolf Willow Press, © 1996. ix-xiii.

____________. "Gertrude Stein: The Style is the Machine." white pelican 3.4 (Autumn 1973): 6-14. Rpr. in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 167-78.

____________. "The Great War: Wyndham Lewis and the Underground Press." artscanada 24.11 (November 1967, No. 114): 3-17. Rpr. in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 50-79.

*_____________. "How to read Ulysses," "Commentary" and "Notes." Modern Consciousness: Habits and Hang-ups. Edmonton: Athabasca University, © 1978. 11-120.

____________. Introduction. The Collected Poems of Miriam Mandel. Ed. Sheila Watson. Edmonton: Longspoon Press, NeWest Press, © 1984.

____________. "Michael Ondaatje: The Mechanization of Death." white pelican 2.4 (Fall 1972): 56-64. Rpr. in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 158-66. Rpr. in Spider Blues: Essays on Michael Ondaatje. Ed. Sam Solecki. Montreal: Véhicule Press, © 1985. 156-65.

____________. "Myth and Counter-myth." white pelican 4.1 (Winter 1974): 7-19. Rpr. in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 119-36.

____________. Preface. West Window: The Selected Poetry of George Bowering. Toronto: General Publishing, 1982. [7-9].

____________. "Power: Nude or Naked." Explorations. Ed. Marshall McLuhan. [Supplement to] The Varsity Graduate (December 1965): 50-56. Rpr. in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 151-57.

_____________. "Wyndham Lewis: A Question of Portraiture." The Tamarack Review (Autumn 1963): 90-98. Rpr. as "A Question of Portraiture" in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed, Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 43-49.

____________. Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974.

____________. "Swift and Ovid: The Development of Metasatire." The Humanities Association Bulletin (Spring 1967): 5-13. Rpr. in Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 139-150.

____________. "Unaccommodated Man." Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 97-114.

____________. "What I'm Going to Do." Sheila Watson: A Collection. Ed. Frank Davey. Open Letter 3.1 (Winter 1974-75). Toronto: The Coach House Press, © 1974. 181-83. Rpr. in Sheila Watson and the Double Hook. Ed. George Bowering. Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1985. 13-15.

____________. "Wyndham Lewis and Expressionism." PhD dissertation. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1965.

____________. "Wyndham Lewis and G. K. Chesterton." The Chesterton Review 6.2 (Spring-Summer 1980): 254-71.

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