Her fiction was thereafter concerned with Canadian subjects, but she maintained her interest in African literature and in 1968 published a critical analysis of Nigerian literature, Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists 1952-1966. A collection of short stories, The Tomorrow-Tamer, as well as a novel, This Side Jordan (both focusing on African subjects) were published after Margaret returned home to Canada. Her book of essays about and translations of Somali poetry and prose was published in 1954 as A Tree for Poverty. It was in Africa that their children, Jocelyn and David, were born, and when Margaret began to work seriously on her writing. Jack's profession took the couple to England, Somalia, and eventually Ghana, where Margaret gained an appreciation for Africa and the storytelling traditions of its peoples. That year, she married Jack Laurence, a civil engineer. Her professional writing career began in 1943 with a job at the town newspaper and continued in 1944, when she entered the Honours English program at Winnipeg's United College (University Of Winnipeg.) After graduating in 1947, she was hired as a reporter for The Winnipeg Citizen. Margaret wrote stories in elementary school.

Aunt Margaret was a Mother to her, raising the kids in theirr maternal Grandfather's home. Her Aunt Margaret helped her Father take care of her for a year, then they married and had a Son. Canada's classic authoress was born Jean Margaret Wemyss on Jin the prairie town of Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada.

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