Marie de lincarnation letters of recommendation

William Robertson Davies was born in 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario to a Welsh father and a strict Presbyterian mother. His father, sent to Canada when his family's tailoring business failed, became an influential and important newspaper owner and senator.

Robertson inherited a love for reading from his parents. He boarded at Upper Canada College in Toronto, then studied at Queen's University in Kingston before attending Balliol College in Oxford, His initial passion was for the theatre and he pursued life as an actor in London.

In 1940 Davies married Brenda Matthews whom he met at Oxford.

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Over of her handwritten letters have been preserved to the present day, including 30 years of correspondence with her son Claude, who became a Benedictine.

This bifurcated image of the American sauvage proves a conspicuous - and well-studied - feature of early modern colonial texts.

In the same year the couple returned to Canada where Davies took the position of literary editor of Saturday Night.

Robertson Davies worked in his early career to increase the quality and profile of Canadian drama.

He started the Dominion Drama Festival and was an early member of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival board. In 1948, he produced his first commercially successful pla