Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The Maclennan-Engel Correspondence

Afterword

Correspondence 123 Marian Engel died on February 16, 1985. She had just entered her fifties, which might have been her richest writing years. A nearly completed novel, "Elizabeth and the Golden City,"160 bears witness to her ever-evolving and increasingly powerful literary talents. The Tattooed Woman, a collection of short stories selected by Engel before her death, was published posthumously. Hugh MacLennan outlived his former student and younger colleague. Voices in Time (1980) was his last published novel, but he continued writing161 and working in his McGill office until he was asked to give it up in 1985. The five-time Governor General's Award winner and originator of the famous phrase "two solitudes" died on November 7, 1990, at the age of eighty-three. 160. See MEA, Box 34, Files 1 through 59, especially File 19. 161. He published On Being a Maritime Writer in 1984. Afterword This page Tintentionally left blank ...