M. T. Dohaney

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Myrtis Theresa "Jean" Dohaney (born Myrtis Theresa Judge; September 15, 1930) is a Newfoundland-born Canadian teacher and writer who lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. [1]

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Life and work

M. T. Dohaney was born to Roger and Anne Judge in Point Verde, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. [2] She moved to Fredericton in 1954 with her husband Walter Dohaney, whom she had married in Gander two years earlier. [2] Dohaney attended the University of New Brunswick, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1967, as well as a teaching certificate. She received an EdD from Boston University in 1978. [1]

In the 1980s, Dohaney began writing short stories while she and her family lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, where her husband was studying at the University of British Columbia. [3] In 1988, Dohaney published her first novel, The Corrigan Women, a portrait of three generations of women in Newfoundland. [4] [5] It was followed by When Things Get Back to Normal (1989), a journal documenting her grief after her husband Walter passed away in 1986. [6] In 1992, Dohaney continued the story of The Corrigan Women with a sequel, To Scatter Stones. [7]

In her teaching career, she first taught in the public school system in New Brunswick and then for almost twenty years at the University of New Brunswick until resigning in 1995. In that same year, she published A Marriage of Masks, which won the Thomas Head Raddall Award. [8] With A Fit Month for Dying (2000), Dohaney completed the trilogy that began with The Corrigan Women. [9]

In 2012, she was the recipient of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in English Language Literary Arts. [10]

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  2. 1 2 3 Herb Curtis, "Saint Jean". Telegraph-Journal , February 21, 1998.
  3. ↑ "M.T. Jean Dohaney: Fredericton novelist says she started to write because she was alone in Vancouver with her small children and needed to fill the empty spaces". Telegraph-Journal. August 30, 2008. pp. G2.
  4. ↑ Robinson, Laura (1990-04-01). "The Corrigan Women. M.T. Dohaney". Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice. 15 (2): 98–100. ISSN   1715-0698.
  5. ↑ Fuller, Danielle (2004-10-13). Writing the Everyday: Women's Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN   978-0-7735-7233-1.
  6. ↑ Fowler, Susan E. (1990). "Book Review: When Things Get Back to Normal". CM Archive. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  7. 1 2 McCue, Sharon Anne McLennan (1992). "Book Review: To Scatter Stones". CM Archive. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  8. ↑ "Masks reveals gift for details: NB's Dohaney winner of Raddall fiction award". Halifax Chronicle-Herald , September 27, 1996.
  9. ↑ Domet, Stephanie (2000). "Book Review: A Fit Month for Dying by M.T. Dohaney". Quill & Quire.
  10. ↑ Laverne Stewart, "Three artists honoured for 'high achievement'". Telegraph-Journal , November 6, 2012.
  11. ↑ Donald W. Nichol, "Why some leave and others stay in Canada's poorest province". The Globe and Mail , August 20, 1988.
  12. ↑ Karen Shewbridge, "Dohaney's new novel not to be missed". The Telegram , December 10, 2000.
  13. ↑ Anne-Marie Hood, "The Flannigans tells a heart-wrenching story". The Daily Gleaner , November 3, 2007.
  14. ↑ Sara O'Leary, "Galley Slave: A woman's place, in memoir and verse: Esta Spalding and M.T. Dohaney each give us a year in the lives of women who are questioning their roles". Vancouver Sun , May 25, 2002.
  15. ↑ "The theme of risk". Telegraph-Journal , September 2, 2017.
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