Alice Munro - Writing Her Lives

“Working for a Living”: 15. 396/87.3: 5.11: 8a-b.
    33. AM , June 20, 2003. 396/87.3: 5.11: 9. AM , April 22, 2004.
    34. “Laidlaw – Chamney,” Perth
Courier
, August 12, 1927.
    35. “Working for a Living”: 23, 18.
    36. “Distressing Impression.” 396/87.3: 5.11: 18. The
Globe and Mail
profile was the unsigned “ ‘Writing’s Something I Did, Like the Ironing.’ ”
    37. “Material,”
Something:
43.
    38. M. Alice Aitken and John Underwood,
The Book of Turnberry:
41. Scott,
The Settlement of Huron County:
275,
passim
, 271–77. See also Jodi Jerome,
The Evolution of Wescast:
102 and
passim
, and
1984 Huron County Historical Atlas:
90–93.
    39.
Wingham Advance-Times:
August 4, 1927.
    40. Twigg interview: 18. Munro’s comments here were quoted by Wayne Grady, “Story Tellers to the World”: 10, a piece that caused the
Wingham Advance-Times
to publish an anti-Alice Munro editorial in its December 16, 1981, issue. Munro’s characterization of Lower Town confirmed by Julie Cruikshank, who grew up in Lower Town across the road from the Laidlaws, and for whom Munro babysat. Interview April 20, 2004. “Highway Flooded South of Town.”
Wingham Advance-Times
, April 11, 1940: 1.
    41. Welty, “Some Notes on River Country”: 286. AM , “Everything Here Is Touchable and Mysterious”: 33. Robert E. Laidlaw to AM , February 10, 1974. 38.1.65a. AM consulted her father for details for this essay; she shared the money she was paid with him: August 22, 2001.
Chapter 2
    1. “An Open Letter”: 6, 5.
Real Life
was not used as a title because another book, a novel by Deborah Pease, was announced for 1971 publication by Norton.
    2.
Wingham Advance-Times
, July 16, 1931: 4. Catherine Sheldrick Ross,
Alice Munro: A Double Life:
34. AM , April 3, 2003.
    3. AM , April 23, 2004. Wachtel interview: 48.
    4. “Home”: 152–53. Italics in original.
    5. “Walker Brothers Cowboy,”
Dance:
5. AM , April 23, 2004.
    6. AM , June 19, 2003.
    7. “A Real Life”:
Open Secrets:
80. AM , June 19, 2003. McCulloch and Simpson interview: 229. Hancock interview: 100.
    8. “Home”: 134–35, 136.
    9. Interview Mary Ross Allen, January 28, 2004. Stapleton, “Alice Munro – Friend of Our Youth”: 10.
    10. AM , June 19, 2003. “Privilege,” Who: 23–25. Hancock interview: 93. Twigg interview: 18. 2004 Wachtel interview.
    11. Ross,
Alice Munro:
34. AM , June 19, 2003.
    12. Ross,
Alice Munro:
33. 37.18.6.3.
    13. “Working for a Living”: 17. “Mrs. George Chamney,”
Carleton Place Canadian
, March 15, 1935.
Wingham Advance-Times:
as indicated: all items: 1.
    14. “Institute Held Annual Meeting,”
Wingham Advance-Times
, April 27, 1939: 1. AM , June 20, 2003.
    15. Interview Mary Ross Allen, January 28, 2004. Interview Audrey Boe Tiffin Marples, January 29, 2004. Interview Donna and James Hall, June 11, 2004. “School Children Missed Seeing King and Queen,”
Wingham Advance-Times
, June 8, 1939: 1. AM , June 20, 2003. AM , August 5, 2004. “Changes and Ceremonies”: 37.4.9.3.f3.
    16. AM , August 22, 2001.
    17. “Going to the Lake,”
Ontario: A Bicentennial Tribute:
51–52. Draft versions: 396/87.3: 8.4.
    18. 396/87.3: 7.5.
Wilderness to Wawanosh 1867–1992:
413. AM , June 19 and 20, 2003. Movie star: 2004 Wachtel interview.
    19. “Blyth,”
Wingham Advance-Times
, July 26, 1939, May 23, 1940. “Chaddeleys and Flemings: 1. Connection,”
Moons:
6.
    20. “L.M. Montgomery Well Received,”
Wingham Advance-Times
, November 16, 1939: 1.
    21. AM , June 20, 2003. “Afterword,”
Emily of New Moon:
357, 359, 361.
    22. AM , April 24, 2004, June 20, 2003.
    23. AM , June 20, 2003.
    24. “Remember Roger Mortimer: Dickens’ ‘Child’s History of England’ Remembered”: 34, 37.
    25. Tausky interview. “Boys and Girls,”
Dance:
113–14.
    26. Tausky interview. Interview Audrey Boe Tiffin Marples, January 29, 2004. “Introduction,”
Selected Stories:
xvi–xvii. 396/87.3: 6.5.
    27. AM , “Stories”: 1.
    28. “Cows Electrocuted Entering Barn,”
Wingham Advance-Times
, June 3, 1943: 1.
    29. “The Ottawa Valley,”
Something:
237, 244.
    30. “The Ottawa Valley,”
Something:
236. Italics in original. Munro called “The Peace of Utrecht” her first “painful autobiographical story” in her interview with John Metcalf: 58. Ross,
Alice Munro:
38. AM , June 20, 2003.
    31. AM , June 20, 2003. Redekop interview.
    32.
Wingham Advance-Times
, April 6, 1944: 1, 5.
Lives:
129.
    33. “Entrance to High School