Helen McMurchie Bott (1886–?) was a

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. Bott held degrees from the

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(Bachelor's, 1912; Master's, 1923). Her 1933 and 1934 books were the first and second ones published in the Child Development Series of the University of Toronto. She married the

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Edward Alexander Bott Edward Alexander Bott (April 11, 1887 - 1974) was a Canadian psychologist. Career Bott was born near Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1887. In 1912, he joined the Faculty at the University of Toronto and took over the psychological laboratory which had be ...

(1887–1974), and they had three daughters, among them anthropologist Elizabeth Bott. Bott served as the head of parental education at the Institute of Child Study until 1938.

Partial works

* '' Personality Development in Young Children'' * '' Method in Social Studies of Young Children'' * '' Adult Attitudes to Children's Misdemeanours''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bott, Helen McMurchie 1886 births Canadian women non-fiction writers Year of death missing 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 20th-century Canadian women writers Canadian educational theorists