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The following is excerpted from the Quill & Quire review of Sandra Djwa's A Journey with No Maps.
The long and fruitful life of P.K. Page, one of Canada’s most respected poets and artists, is expertly revealed in Sandra Djwa’s detailed biography.
Born in 1916, when women’s options were even more circumscribed than they are today, Page struggled with her artistic aspirations. Djwa illustrates the influence of three men – Page’s father, Lionel; her first love, Frank Scott; and her husband, Arthur Irwin – as well as Page’s Aunt Bibbi, who completed the work for a degree at Cambridge but was not awarded it because she was a woman. Page herself was an autodidact who never passed up an opportunity to delve into any subject that grabbed her imagination.
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Djwa’s association with Page, as well as her previous biography of F.R. Scott, has provided her with a wealth of material to draw on. The countless interviews attested to in the notes and bibliography indicate the extent of the personal contact Djwa had with her subject. As befits a careful academic, Djwa also examined piles of books, journals, papers, and letters to draw a fully realized portrait of Page. All that work has resulted in a highly readable biography about a fascinating woman.
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