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On 7 July 2024, shortly after Munro's death, her youngest daughter, Andrea Skinner, revealed in an essay in the Toronto Star that her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, had sexually abused her starting in 1976 when she was nine years old and ending when she became a teenager. She told Munro about the abuse in 1992.
Munro was seemingly unaware of the abuse or her husband’s proclivities, until former friends of Fremlin told the author that he had exposed himself to their 14-year-old daughter.
Andrea Robin Skinner, Munro's daughter with her first husband, James Munro, wrote in an essay published in the Toronto Star that Fremlin sexually assaulted her in the mid-1970s — when she was 9 ...
One of Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s daughters, Andrea Robin Skinner, alleged her stepfather, Munro’s husband Gerald “Gerry” Fremlin, sexually abused her when she was a child, and said her ...
The figures of their fathers are compared with Alice Munro's own father. Dahlia's dad was a violent man who regularly beat his children and wife. Mr. Wainwright was a gentle person belonging to the Salvation Army. Alice's father was severe and sometimes used corporal punishment, but never out of anger and without a reason.
In a heart-wrenching essay by Andrea Robin Skinner, Munro’s youngest daughter who is now 58 years old—published on Sunday in the Toronto Star alongside a reported companion piece by the paper ...
Lives of Girls and Women is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning Canadian author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971. [1] [2] Although described and marketed as a novel, in form it resembles a collection of interlinked short stories, with discrete chapters narrated by the main character, Del Jordan.
Alice Munro Credit - Reg Innell—Toronto Star/ Getty Images. I t is a truth universally acknowledged that a mother has her child’s best interests at heart, and that she will put those interests ...