Who Was Doris Hedges? The Search for Canada's First Literary Agent: by Robert Lecker, Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020, 288 pp., CAN $37.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-2280-0369-4.

While Lecker's speculations about Hedges's own desires contribute to the impression that her I literary i achievements are slight, his contextualizing of the novel within the "Lavender Scare" of the 1950s and his reading of Hedges's habitual representation of heterosexual sex as "sex by assault" (167) open up her work for further study. Doris Hedges and Alternative Realities in Postwar Montreal Review by Patrick Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles, https://coleman@humnet.ucla.edu Robert Lecker's I Who Was Doris Hedges? Although the speculation over Hedges's sexual desires at times overshadows the discussion of her writing, the analyses are strongest when Lecker situates Hedges's work in the trends of the period. Lecker's suspicion of Hedges's class privilege rightly colors her self-promoting character; however, I wonder where Hedges fits among other women writers of middle-brow and sensational fiction. [Extracted from the article]