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A Mixture of Frailties
A Mixture of Frailties, published by Macmillan in 1958, is the third novel in The Salterton Trilogy by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. The other two novels are "Tempest-Tost" (1951) and "Leaven of Malice" (1954). The series was also published in one volume as The Salterton Trilogy in 1986.
The trilogy revolves around the residents of the imaginary town of Salterton, Ontario.
The protagonist, Monica Gall, is a working-class girl with a beautiful
Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, and "A Mixture of Frailties" (1958). These novels explored the difficulty of sustaining a cultural life in Canada, and life on a small-town newspaper, subjects of which Davies had first-hand knowledge.
Biography 1960s.
In 1960, Davies joined Trinity College at the University of Toronto, where he would teach literature until 1981. The following year he published a collection of essays on literature, "A Voice From the Attic", and was awarded the Lorne Pierce