Joyce Hemlow (July 31, 1906 – September 3, 2001) was a

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professor and accomplished writer.

Biography

Joyce Hemlow was born July 31, 1906. Her parents were William and Rosalinda (Redmond) Hemlow of Nova Scotia. She was educated at Queen's University where she received a

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in 1941 and an M.A. in 1942, becoming a travelling

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of the university until 1943, when she became a fellow of the Canadian Federation of University Women. She then attended

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in the United States, gaining an A.M. in 1944 and a PhD in 1948. In 1951, she became a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and, in the summer of 1954, a Nuffeld Fellow. She taught English literature at

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for most of her career, beginning in 1945, and became the Greenshields Professor of English Language and Literature at McGill in 1965. She also served from 1957 to 1961 as a member of the Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her literary output mainly concerned the Burneys, especially the novelist

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, best profiled in her award-winning book ''The History of Fanny Burney'', which received the

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, the Governor General's Award for Academic Non-Fiction in 1958, and the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. A small collection of her papers at

documents her teaching activities. She was a member of

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and was a

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Awards and honours

* Governor General's Award for Academic Non-Fiction in 1958 * Rose Mary Crawshay Prize

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hemlow, Joyce 1906 births 2001 deaths Canadian Protestants Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada McGill University faculty Queen's University at Kingston alumni Radcliffe College alumni Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction writers Canadian women non-fiction writers James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients