Life Writing and Testimonies by and about Women in Need, Women on the Streets, and Women in Service

1. Women in Need

Baxter, Sheila. No Way to Live: Poor Women Speak Out. Vancouver: New Star, 1988. [Oral History]

---. Under the Viaduct: Homeless in Beautiful B.C. Vancouver: New Star, 1991. [Oral History]

Beresford-Howe, Constance. The Book of Eve. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973. [Novel]

Brand, Dionne. At the Full and Change of the Moon. Toronto: Knopf, 1999. [Novel]

Cameron, Anne.  Kick the Can. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1991. [Novel]

Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed. Toronto: McClelland, 1973. [Life Writing]

Collier, Diana G. The Invisible Women of Washington. Atlanta; Ottawa: Clarity, 1987. [Novel]

The Diary of Evelyn Lau. Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson. CBC, 1993. [Film Adaptation of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid]

Dohaney, Myrtis T. The Corrigan Women. Charlottetown, PEI: Ragweed; Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1988. [Novel]

Ellis, Deborah. The Breadwinner. Toronto: Douglas, 2000. [Novel for Young Adults]

---. Parvana’s Journey. Toronto: Groundwood, 2002. [Novel for Young Adults]

Landsberg, Michele. Women and Children First: A Provocative Look at Modern Canadian Women at Work and at Home. Toronto: Macmillan, 1982. [Personal Essay]

Lau, Evelyn. Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid. Toronto: Harper, 1989. [Life Writing]

Maillet, Antonine. Mariaagélas. Montréal: Leméac, 1973. [Novel]

Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine. New York: Grove, 1989. [Novel]

Silman, Janet. Enough Is Enough: Aboriginal Women Speak Out. Toronto: Women’s P, 1987. [Oral History]

Szucsany, Desiré. “The Suitcase.” Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry by and about Women. Ed. Greta Hoffman Nemiroff. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry, 1989. 355-58. [Short Story]

Wiseman, Adele. Crackpot. Toronto: McClelland, 1974. [Novel]

2. Women on the Streets

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: McClelland, 1985. [Novel]

Baxter, Sheila. No Way to Live: Poor Women Speak Out. Vancouver: New Star, 1988. [Oral History]

---. Under the Viaduct: Homeless in Beautiful B.C. Vancouver: New Star, 1991. [Oral History]

Beresford-Howe, Constance. The Book of Eve. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973. [Novel]

Boucher, Denise. Les Fées ont soif.Montréal: Intermède, 1978. [Play]

Brand, Dionne. At the Full and Change of the Moon. Toronto: Knopf, 1999. [Novel]

Cameron, Anne. Kick the Can. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1991. [Novel]

Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed.Toronto: McClelland, 1973. [Life Writing]

Collier, Diana G. The Invisible Women of Washington. Atlanta; Ottawa: Clarity, 1987. [Novel]

The Diary of Evelyn Lau. Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson. CBC, 1993. [Film Adaptation of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid]

Dohaney, Myrtis T. The Corrigan Women. Charlottetown, PEI: Ragweed; Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1988. [Novel]

Ellis, Deborah.  Parvana’s Journey. Toronto: Groundwood, 2002. [Novel for Young Adults]

Highcrest, Alexandra. At Home on the Stroll: My Twenty Years as a Prostitute in Canada. Toronto: Knopf, 1997. [Life Writing]

Lau,Evelyn. Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid.Toronto: Harper, 1989. [Life Writing]

Silman, Janet. Enough Is Enough: Aboriginal Women Speak Out. Toronto: Women’s P, 1987. [Oral History]

Szucsany, Desiré. “The Suitcase.” Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry by and about Women. Ed. Greta Hoffman Nemiroff. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry, 1989. 355-58. [Short Story]

Wiseman, Adele. Crackpot. Toronto: McClelland, 1974. [Novel]

3. Women in Service

Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace. Toronto: McClelland, 1996. [Novel]

---. The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: McClelland, 1985. [Novel]

Brand, Dionne. No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario 1920’s-1950’s. Toronto: Women’s P, 1991. [Oral History]

Cooper, Afua. The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal. Toronto: Harper, 2006. [Life Writing]

Dumont, Marilyn. A Really Good Brown Girl. 1996. London, ON: Brick, 2005. [Poetry]

Ellis, Deborah. The Breadwinner. Toronto: Douglas, 2000. [Novel for Young Adults]

Hansen, Ann. Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2001. [Life Writing]

Joe, Rita. Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi’kmaq Poet. Charlottetown, PEI: Ragweed, 1996. [Life Writing]

---. Lnu and Indians We’re Called. 1991. Charlottetown, PEI: Ragweed, 1999. [Poetry]

Kramer, Reinhold, and Tom Mitchell. Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899. Don Mills, ON: OUP, 2002. [Life Writing]

Krawczyk, Betty Shiver. Lock Me Up or Let Me Go: The Protests, Arrest and Trial of an Environmental Activist. Vancouver: Press Gang, 2002. [Life Writing]

Lambert, Betty. Jenny’s Story. Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 1982. [Play]

Landsberg, Michele. Women and Children First: A Provocative Look at Modern Canadian Women at Work and at Home. Toronto: Macmillan, 1982. [Personal Essay]

Laurence, Margaret. The Stone Angel. Toronto: McClelland, 1964. [Novel]

Lowe, Mick. One Woman Army: The Life of Claire Culhane. Toronto: Macmillan, 1992. [Life Writing]

Moran, Bridget. Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John. Vancouver: Tillacum, 1989. [Oral History]

Philip, Marlene Nourbese. Harriet’s Daughter. Toronto: Women’s P, 1988. [Novel for Young Adults]

Potrebenko, Helen. Hey Waitress and Other Stories. Vancouver: Lazara, 1989. [Short Story]

Sarsfield, Mairuth.  No Crystal Stair.  Toronto: Women’s Press, 2004. [Novel]

Wiseman, Adele. Crackpot. Toronto: McClelland, 1974. [Novel]

 

Compiled by Linda Goin, Dominique Hétu, and Roxanne Rimstead