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Revision as of 23:37, 9 February 2023
Mary Quayle Innis | |
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| Born | April 13, 1899 St. Mary's, Ohio, United States |
| Died | January 10, 1972 (aged 72) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, editor, researcher, historian |
| Notable works | An Economic History of Canada |
| Spouse | Harold Innis |
| Children | Four, including Anne Innis Dagg and Donald Quayle Innis |
Mary Emma Quayle Innis (April 13, 1899 – January 10, 1972) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and author of historical works including An Economic History of Canada; three illustrated books for children about the country's founding; a history of the Canadian YMCA; and, Travellers West, an account of three 19th century expeditions across western Canada. In addition, she researched and edited several books about women and Canadian history including a scholarly edition of Mrs. Simcoe's Diary, kept during the 1790s, by the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.[1]
Innis worked with her husband, the Canadian economic historian Harold Innis, helping to edit his books for publication. She also contributed ideas influencing his later work on the role of media in shaping civilizations. After his death in 1952, she helped edit and revise four his works. For the second edition of Empire and Communications in 1972, she incorporated Innis's marginal notes in the footnotes, tracing and attributing quotations and expanding references.[2][3][1]
Innis served as Dean of Women at the University of Toronto's University College from 1955 to 1964.[2]
She received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University in 1958 and another from the University of Waterloo in 1965.[1]
Life
Mary Quayle Innis was born April 13, 1899 in St Mary's, Ohio.[3] Her father was a telephone engineer. She began a BA at the University of Chicago in 1915, taking a leave to do war service in Washington, before returning to complete her studies in 1918.[3] 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.[3] Together they had four children, Donald (1924), Mary (1927), Hugh (1930), and Anne (1933).[3]
Innis published over eighty short stories along with a novel, four edited collections and several historical books and articles.[2] She received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University in 1958 and another from the University of Waterloo in 1965.[2]
Innis died in Toronto on January 10, 1972.[4]
Select bibliography
- Innis, Mary Quayle. 1956. Travellers West. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.[5]
- 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.[5]
- Innis, Mary Quayle. Stand on a Rainbow. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944. "fiction, for a juvenile audience" [5]
References
- ^ a b c Dagg, Anne Innis (2020). Mary Quayle Innis: The Woman Who Inspired Me. Otter Press. pp. 132–141. ISBN 9798580124216.
- ^ a b c d Belisle, Donica; Mitchell, Kiera (10 October 2018). "Mary Quayle Innis: Faculty Wives' Contributions and the Making of Academic Celebrity". Canadian Historical Review. 99 (3): 456–486. doi:10.3138/chr.2017-0108. S2CID 165596594.
- ^ a b c d e Black, J. David (2003). ""Both of us can move mountains": Mary Quayle Innis and Her Relationship to Harold Innis' Legacy". Canadian Journal of Communication. 28 (4). doi:10.22230/cjc.2003v28n4a1391. ISSN 1499-6642.
- ^ Scott, Marylynn (16 December 2013). "Mary Quayle Innis". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ a b c World Cat author listing
External links
- Mary Quayle and the professor, Champlain Society Podcast https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/wty-ep69-en
- "Innis, Mary Quayle - Discover Archives". discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- "Mary Quayle Innis fonds". archives.uwaterloo.ca. University of Waterloo Library. Special Collections & Archives. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
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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