| 词条 | Helen McLean |
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| name = Helen McLean | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1927 | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Canadian | other_names = | occupation = Author, painter | known_for = Details From a Larger Canvas }} Helen McLean (born 1927) is a Canadian author and painter, known for her autobiographical Details From a Larger Canvas. LifeHelen McLean was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1927.{{sfn|Edwards|Stewart|2000|p=118}} As a teenager in 1940 she studied under Dorothy Stevens at an art class arranged by the Women's Art Association.{{sfn|McLean|2001|p=41-42}} She attended the University of Toronto, where she earned a B.A., and gained an M.A at the University of Calgary. She married Ross McLean, and had three children.{{sfn|Gale|2004|p=253}} Helen McLean became an artist, writer, art critic, and teacher.{{sfn|Edwards|Stewart|2000|p=118}} Helen McLean has written two autobiographical books, Sketching from Memory: A Portrait of My Mother (1994) and Details from a Larger Canvas (2001).{{sfn|Gale|2004|p=253}} Her second book describes her struggles against the expectations she had set for herself, or that had been set for a woman by her family or society.{{sfn|Wilson|2001|p=63}} Her 1998 novel Of all the Summers describes the experiences of a woman, Rachel, during different periods of her life. Rachel is now in mid-life and is rediscovering herself. The lyrical novel recalls her earlier relationships and work.{{sfn|Feminist Bookstore News 1998|p=3}} McLean's 2003 novel Significant Things was short-listed for the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada Region.{{sfn|Significant Things, Dundurn Press}} PaintingsMcLean's paintings have been exhibited widely in Canada.{{sfn|Brick 1996|p=63}}{{sfn|Edwards|Stewart|2000|p=118}} They are held in private and corporate collections that include the Bank of Canada in Ottawa. Her portrait of Margaret Laurence hangs in the Margaret Laurence Home in Neepawa, Manitoba. PublicationsMcLean has published articles, essays and reviews in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Brick, Quill & Quire, Books in Canada, the Literary Review of Canada, Room of One's Own and Ars Medica. McLean's published books include: {{refbegin}}
|last=McLean|first=Helen|title=Sketching from Memory: A Portrait of My Mother|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4DDNwAACAAJ |date=1994-01-01|publisher=Oberon Press|isbn=978-0-88750-974-2}}
|last=McLean|first=Helen|title=Of All the Summers: A Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNdvngEACAAJ |year=1998|publisher=Women's Press|isbn=978-0-88961-235-8}}
|last=McLean|first=Helen|title=Details from a Larger Canvas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A2zM6ueofZEC&pg=PA41|accessdate=2014-07-03 |date=2001-04-01|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-4597-1457-1}} (autobiography)
|last=McLean|first=Helen|title=Significant Things: A Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBsj2gL_th4C |date=2003-04-01|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-55488-607-4}}
|last=McLean|first=Helen|title=Just Looking: And Other Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oKDDJwAACAAJ |year=2008|publisher=Seraphim Editions|isbn=978-0-9808879-2-1}}{{refend}} ReferencesCitationsSources{{refbegin}}
|title=Brick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BZ0tAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2014-08-06 |year=1996|publisher=Applegarth Follies.}}
|last1=Edwards|first1=Caterina|last2=Stewart|first2=Kay Lanette|title=Wrestling with the Angel: Women Reclaiming Their Lives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPRZAAAAMAAJ |year=2000|publisher=Red Deer Press|isbn=978-0-88995-201-0}}
|title=Feminist Bookstore News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pIXgAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2014-08-06 |year=1998|publisher=Feminist Bookstore News}}
|last=Gale|first=Thomson |title=Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DiTCHwv-x9MC|accessdate=2014-08-06 |date=2004-09-01|publisher=Gale / Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-7876-6704-7}}
|title=Significant Things|publisher=Dundurn Press|accessdate=2014-08-06}}
|last=Wilson|first=Joyce M.|title=Canadian Book Review Annual |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWcWAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=2014-08-06 |year=2001|publisher=Peter Martin Associates.}}{{refend}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:McLean, Helen}} 21 : 1927 births|Living people|Canadian women novelists|20th-century Canadian novelists|Canadian essayists|Canadian literary critics|Canadian women essayists|Women critics|20th-century Canadian women writers|21st-century Canadian women writers|20th-century Canadian painters|21st-century Canadian painters|University of Toronto alumni|University of Calgary alumni|21st-century Canadian novelists|Writers from Toronto|Artists from Toronto|20th-century Canadian women artists|21st-century Canadian women artists|20th-century essayists|21st-century essayists |
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