CA-K637Culture & sport
Margaret Duley, Newfoundland novelist
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Margaret Iris Duley of St. John’s, who wrote mainly in the 1930s and 1940s, was the first Newfoundland novelist to gain international recognition, with readers in Canada and England as well as at home. Novels such as Cold Pastoral and Highway to Valour vividly portray the beauty and harshness of early 20th-century Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Duley as described in her designation.
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Margaret Iris Duley National Historic Person ↗
Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)
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