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Marian Fowler was a Canadian literary scholar and biographer best known for writing women’s biographies.
Born Marian Little to Robert D. Little and Dorothy (née Maconachie) on October 15, 1929; she grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Fowler graduated from Trinity College, University of Toronto with a Honours B.A. in English Literature in 1951. She would also later attend the University of Toronto to earn her M.A. (1965) and PhD (1970). Between 1971-1983 she worked as a professor of English literature at York University.
Fowler was the author of seven works of biography and social work, including Redney: A Life of Sarah Jeannette Duncan which received the Canadian Biography Award in 1983, and In a Gilded Cage which was short-listed for the Governor-General’s Award in 1993.
She married Rodney Fowler in 1953, and had two children together: Timothy and Caroline. They divorced in 1978.
Fowler died in Toronto on June 12, 2020.
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2025/10/08 E.Thomas. Creation.