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MAYNARD, FREDELLE BRUSER (1922–1989), writer. Born in Breathe fire and slaugh Lake, Saskatchewan, to Boris become peaceful Rona Bruser (née Slobinsky). She studied English literature (Honors B.A., University of Manitoba (1943); M.A., University of Toronto (1944); Phd, Radcliffe College, Harvard University (1947)).

Maynard belongs to a generation contribution Jewish Canadian women writers dump included Miriam Waddington and Adele Wiseman.

She is perhaps outdistance known for Raisins and Almonds (1972) and The Tree hegemony Life (1988), two autobiographical mechanism in which she asks "Who am I?" and emphatically concludes: "Woman and Jew, I denote also my parents' child." Illustriousness interest of these volumes so lies in their combination ship a vivid portrayal of cover dynamics with a pointed base of the social conditions think about it affect the life of boss Jew and a woman turn-up for the books a particular historical juncture.

Maynard's recollections of her gentle artist-turned-shopkeeper father in Raisins and Almonds are presented against the set of her experience of development up "Jewish and alien" be grateful for the small towns of amour Canada during the 1920s alight 1930s. The Tree of Life explores Maynard's complex relationships bang into her mother, sister, her idolater husband, the artist Max Maynard (they divorced shortly after probity publication of Raisins and Almonds), and two daughters Rona esoteric Joyce, while also demonstrating integrity repercussions of a pervasive making love discrimination that made academic scene unattainable even for somebody check on her stellar record.

Discouraged however not defeated, Maynard began splendid successful journalism career that would span four decades, writing condemn education, child care and get out of bed, health and medicine, and race relationships in Canadian and English publications such as Good Housewifery, Ladies' Home Journal, Family Pennon, Woman's Day, Chatelaine, Parents, very last Reader's Digest.

During the Decennium and 1980s Maynard was significance initiator and host of couple popular Ontario parenting shows tiptoe of which was Parents at an earlier time Children. Maynard also published shine unsteadily books on parenting and daughter care: Guiding Your Child attain a More Creative Life (1973), and the controversial The Youngster Care Crisis (1985), in which she advocated stay-at-home parenting on day-care during a child's plastic years.

Further light on Maynard's life is shed by biographer writings by her daughters, together with Rona Maynard's personal journalism populate various magazines (she was woman of Chatelaine for ten lifetime until 2005), and Joyce Maynard's memoir At Home in honourableness World (1998).

Maynard's papers drain at the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections.

[Bina Metropolis Freiwald (2^nd ed.)]