Luella Sanders Creighton, née Bruce (August 25, 1901 – March 6, 1996) was a

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novelist and non-fiction writer. She is best known to contemporary audiences for her 1951 novel ''High Bright Buggy Wheels'', which was reprinted by

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series in 1978.

Biography

Creighton was born on August 25, 1901, in

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, to James William Bruce and Luella Sanders. She taught school locally before attending Victoria College at the

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and later studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She married

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, a historian, on June 23, 1926, and operated a real estate office in Toronto before moving to Brooklin in 1962. Their daughter,

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, is a noted Canadian writer. Creighton's work included

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, non-fiction and

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, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''.

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, 2002. . "Creighton, Luella Sanders", p. 247. She also authored several textbooks, served as a member of the Central Ontario Regional Library Board, and assisted her husband with his writing projects. Creighton died on March 6, 1996, in

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Bibliography

*''High Bright Buggy Wheels'' (1951) *''Turn East, Turn West'' (1954) *''Canada, The Struggle for Empire'' (1960) *''Canada, Trial and Triumph'' (1963) *''Tecumseh, the Story of the Shawnee Chief'' (1965) *''Miss Multipenny and Miss Crumb'' (1966) *''The Elegant Canadians'' (1967) *''The Hitching Post'' (1969).

References

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