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Those who read Edna Staebler s diaries will discover the qualities her friends already know: here is a woman whose words reveal a growing self-discovery, an independent spirit, and the stubborn courage to be true to herself. - Wayson Choy, Trillium award-winning author of All That Matters and winner of the Edna Staebler Creative Non-fiction Award for Paper Shadows

``This edition does important recovery work, bringing attention to a woman writer who is not well-recognized in the Canadian literary canon.'' -- Laurie McNeill -- Canadian Literature, 191, Winter 2006, 200704 ```Interest is everything,' Edna wrote in 1928. In these pages she reveals her endless curiosity and enthusiasm for other people's lives while at the same time harping about her stubborn urge to write, her insecurity, her hesitations, and her agony when she does not or cannot write.... Edna Staebler's diaries attest to her determination, her courage, and her easy-flowing pen.'' -- Pauline Carey -- Canadian Book Review Annual, 2006, 200703 ``Those who read Edna Staebler's diaries will discover the qualities her friends already know: here is a woman whose words reveal a growing self-discovery, an independent spirit, and the stubborn courage to be true to herself.'' -- Wayson Choy, Trillium award-winning author of All That Matters andwinner of the Edna Staebler Creative Non-fiction Award forPaper Shadows -- 200508 ``Scholars interested in Canadian life writing will welcome the publication of this selection of Edna Staebler's diaries.... Readers my think of Staebler as a folksy writer of cookbooks, creative non-fiction, and journalistic pieces, but the diaries reveal a woman and author of considerable depth, subtlety, and complexity. Arguably, the diaries are her major literary achievement not only because of their sheer volume -- Staebler kept a diary for eight decades--but also because of the quality of the writing.... Verduyn ... supplies invaluable contextual material through brief introductions to each chapter, through endnotes ... [and] ... a cogent (if brief) essay in which she locates Staebler's diaries in historical and critical contexts.... The inclusion of this extratextual material makes Must Write a thoroughly scholarly edition. Verduyn has honoured Staebler's writing achievements; she has also made an important contribution to Canadian life-writing studies by bringing to a wider audience a significant primary text.'' -- Linda Warley -- University of Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2005, Volume 76, number 1, Winter 2007, 200801

Those who read Edna Staebler s diaries will discover the qualities her friends already know: here is a woman whose words reveal a growing self-discovery, an independent spirit, and the stubborn courage to be true to herself. --Wayson Choy, Trillium award-winning author of All That Matters and winner of the Edna Staebler Creative Non-fiction Award for Paper Shadows

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Christl Verduyn teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies and is the coordinator of the Canadian Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo. She publishes on Canadian and Quebecois women's writing, multiculturalism and minority writing, and life writing.

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