Margaret Wade Labarge
Margaret Wade Labarge | |
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| Born | Margaret Wade July 18, 1916 New York City, New York, US |
| Died | August 31, 2009 (aged 93) |
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| Other names | Polly Labarge |
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Raymond Labarge
(m. 1940; died 1971) |
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Medieval history | |
Margaret Wade Labarge CM FRSC (1916–2009) was a Canadian historian specializing in the role of women in the Middle Ages. She was adjunct professor of history at Carleton University.
Labarge attended
Early life and family
Margaret Wade was born on July 18, 1916, in
The family moved from New York to New Canaan, Connecticut, after a physician made a recommendation for country living to help ten-year-old Wade's vision problems. She was also told not to read at all for a year, but she snuck books into trees she climbed and under her covers at night. She later attended a Sacred Heart boarding school in Greenwich, Connecticut.[1]
Education
She studied at
Career and later personal life
She married a Canadian she had met at Oxford, Raymond Labarge, who was there studying law. They moved to Canada, and she spent most of her later years in Ottawa, where the couple had two daughters and two sons. She became a patriotic Canadian, and renounced her US citizenship.[1] She wrote nine books about history, mostly focusing on the lives of women in medieval times. Her husband was named deputy minister of customs and excise in the National Revenue Ministry; he died when she was 55.
She wrote and lectured at Ottawa universities, while also expanding her volunteer work; she was named to the Order of Canada in 1982, with mention of her historical writing and her volunteer work with nurses and with the elderly. She became the first president of the Canadian Society of Medievalists in 1993.
She is best known her various books: A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century is about
She died on August 31, 2009.
Selected works
- (1965) A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century
- (1968) Saint Louis: The Life of Louis IX of France, London.
- (1980) Gascony, England's First Colony 1204–1453. London: Hamish Hamilton
- (1982) Medieval Travellers: The Rich and the Restless, London: Hamish Hamilton
- (1986) A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life, London: Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 0-241-11809-3
- Simon de Montfort
- Henry V
References
- ^ a b c d e Fitterman, Lisa (September 8, 2009). "Ottawa author was fascinated with medieval women: Margaret Wade Labarge was named to the Order of Canada for bringing history to life and volunteering on behalf of nurses and the aged", The Globe and Mail, p. S8. Retrieved on 2009-09-09.
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