© Estate of Anne Szumigalski, 2012
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In the works of fiction, in this book, names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Selected and Edited by Mark Abley
Cover Design by David Drummond
Typeset by Susan Buck
Printed and bound in Canada at Imprimerie Gauvin
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Szumigalski, Anne, 1922-
A woman clothed in words / Anne Szumigalski ; edited
by Mark Abley.
ISBN 978-1-55050-478-1
I. Abley, Mark, 1955- II. Title.
PS8587.Z44W58 2012 C818'.54 C2012-900049-3
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