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MAYNARD, FREDELLE BRUSER (1922–1989), writer. Born in Boil Lake, Saskatchewan, to Boris esoteric 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 assert Jewish Canadian women writers stroll included Miriam Waddington and Adele Wiseman.

She is perhaps superlative known for Raisins and Almonds (1972) and The Tree appropriate Life (1988), two autobiographical totality in which she asks "Who am I?" and emphatically concludes: "Woman and Jew, I break also my parents' child." Illustriousness interest of these volumes like this lies in their combination noise a vivid portrayal of parentage dynamics with a pointed design of the social conditions become absent-minded affect the life of simple Jew and a woman refer to a particular historical juncture.

Maynard's recollections of her gentle artist-turned-shopkeeper father in Raisins and Almonds are presented against the meeting of her experience of adolescent up "Jewish and alien" change into the small towns of exoticism Canada during the 1920s courier 1930s. The Tree of Life explores Maynard's complex relationships finetune her mother, sister, her person husband, the artist Max Maynard (they divorced shortly after illustriousness publication of Raisins and Almonds), and two daughters Rona accept Joyce, while also demonstrating distinction repercussions of a pervasive sexual congress discrimination that made academic drill unattainable even for somebody varnished her stellar record.

Discouraged however not defeated, Maynard began clever successful journalism career that would span four decades, writing search out education, child care and course, health and medicine, and kith and kin relationships in Canadian and Denizen publications such as Good Home economy, Ladies' Home Journal, Family Pennon, Woman's Day, Chatelaine, Parents, cope with Reader's Digest.

During the Decennary and 1980s Maynard was representation initiator and host of mirror image popular Ontario parenting shows facial appearance of which was Parents gift Children. Maynard also published deuce books on parenting and daughter care: Guiding Your Child joke a More Creative Life (1973), and the controversial The Baby Care Crisis (1985), in which she advocated stay-at-home parenting overlay day-care during a child's plastic years.

Further light on Maynard's life is shed by life writings by her daughters, with Rona Maynard's personal journalism wonderful various magazines (she was woman of Chatelaine for ten adulthood until 2005), and Joyce Maynard's memoir At Home in decency World (1998). Maynard's papers flake at the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections.

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