In addition to publishing short stories in magazines, Ms. Porter wrote a memoir about her childhood in St. John’s, and the novel January, February, June or July, which received praise for its strong female characters
Her mentorship was equally long-standing and significant.
“She had worked to make public transportation more accessible,” Ms. Moore said. “Not glamorous work, at first glance, but in a city gouged by wind and often storm-riven, a good bus system could mean a pretty big change in the ordinary lives of the people who depended on it.” Ms. Moore also called Ms. Porter “one of Canada’s best writers,” while Ms. Morgan dubbed her “Newfoundland’s Roddy Doyle.” She did not romanticize in biography or fiction, and observed and inscribed details few others would. For example, her poemwas about child abuse – and for this reason was struck from a 1979 high school anthology by a provincial Department of Education bureaucrat.
As a child, the only library books she read that were set in Canada were by L.M. Montgomery; there were no book publishers yet in Newfoundland and Labrador. But still from childhood she wrote stories and poems almost every day.
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