Mary Emma Quayle Innis (April 13, 1899 – January 10, 1972) was a writer and historian.
Life
Mary Quayle Innis was born April 13, 1899 in St Mary's, Ohio.
Her father was a telephone engineer. She began a BA at the
University of Chicago
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in 1915, taking a leave to do war service in Washington, before returning to complete her studies in 1918.
In the pursuit of that degree, she took a class in Political Economy taught by Harold Innis. They were married in Chicago in 1921, and moved to Toronto, where she continued to write.
Together they had four children, Donald (1924), Mary (1927), Hugh (1930), and
Anne
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie.
Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...
(1933).
Innis served as the Dean of Women at
University College
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from 1955-1964.
Innis published over eighty short stories along with a novel, four edited collections and several historical books and articles.
She received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University in 1958 and another from the University of Waterloo in 1965.
Innis died in Toronto on January 10, 1972.
Select bibliography
*Innis, Mary Quayle. 1956. Travellers West. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.
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* Innis, Mary Quayle. The Clear Spirit. Twenty Canadian Women and Their Times. Published for the Canadian Federation of University Women by University of Toronto Press. Edited by Mary Quayle Innis. 1967.
References
External links
* Mary Quayle and the professor, Champlain Society Podcast https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/wty-ep69-en
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Canadian women historians
American women non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
1899 births
1972 deaths
20th-century Canadian women writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian historians
American emigrants to Canada
People from St. Mary's, Ohio
Historians from Ohio