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In a new essay, Andrea Robin Skinner recalls the abuse she suffered by her stepfather Gerald Fremlin ... Nobel Prize-winning ...

The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it ...

Canadian writer Alice Munro's daughter said Sunday that her ... her husband, my stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, climbed into the bed where I was sleeping and sexually assaulted me." ...

The man was Gerald Fremlin, a retired civil servant and geographer ... What he was writing, he said, was a “biography of Alice Munro’s texts.” The distinction is hard to sustain: Munro ...

Gerald Fremlin, in their home in Clinton, Ontario. She later told her step-mother, who then told her father, Jim Munro, who decided not to confront Alice Munro at the time. Ms Skinner returned to ...

Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro’s death earlier this year should be the occasion for assessing and reassessing ...

The literary legacy of Alice Munro threatens to be overshadowed ... Skinner claims her late stepfather, geographer Gerald Fremlin, subjected her to years of abuse from the age of nine, after ...