CS
held the Order of Canada and the Order of Manitoba, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
.
Clark, Alex. “Carol Shields”. The Guardian, 18 July 2003, p. 23.
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After she died, Margaret Atwood
identified her forte as the extraordinariness of ordinary people.
qtd. in
Atwood, Margaret. “To the light house”. The Guardian, 26 Aug. 2003, p. 28.
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Reception
Agnes Maule Machar
Her poetry was anthologized in Canadian school texts and recognized in 1895 at an Evening with Canadian Poets sponsored by the Royal Society of Canada
.