Background
Westwater, Martha Elizabeth was born on January 3, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Joseph James Westwater and Martha Elizabeth Early.
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Wilson Sisters: Biographical Study Upper...
(1984, hardcover edition, Ohio University press, Athens, O...)
1984, hardcover edition, Ohio University press, Athens, OH, 250 pages. Vintage illustrations. Details the life and times of 6 Victorian ladies and their marriages and some customs dictated by the times themselves.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0821407279/?tag=2022091-20
Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction
(Evil, despair, and helplessness are persistent themes in ...)
Evil, despair, and helplessness are persistent themes in recent young-adult fiction. Yet this bleakness needs not translate into depression and fear for vulnerable adolescents. Westwater reads six young-adult novels through Kristevan theory to find a glimmer of hope amidst our cultural crises.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0888643209/?tag=2022091-20
- The Spasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell (The Smasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell opens up a tantaliz...)
Martha Elizabeth Westwater
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education, St. John's University, 1957. Master of Arts in English Literature, St. John's University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature, Dalhousie University, 1974.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Mount St. Vincent University, 1996.
Career
Professor English Mount St. Vincent, Halifax, Canada, 1972-1998. Professor emeritus Massasoit Community College, Brockton, Massachusetts, since 2000. Research in field.
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The Spasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell
(The Smasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell opens up a tantaliz...)
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Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction
(Evil, despair, and helplessness are persistent themes in ...)
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Wilson Sisters: Biographical Study Upper...
(1984, hardcover edition, Ohio University press, Athens, O...)
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The Spasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell
Membership
Member Sisters of Charity, since 1949. Founder Mothers Advanvced Education Team, Dartmouth, Canada, since 1994. Member Modern Language Association.
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Roman Catholic
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1957
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1962
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1974
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1996