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