Joyce Hemlow M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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, Ph.D, FRSC

Royal Society of Canada

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 (July 31, 1906 – September 3, 2001) was a Canadian professor and accomplished writer.

She was born to William and Rosalinda (Redmond) Hemlow and was educated at Queen's University

Queen's University

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, received a B.A in 1941 and her MA in 1942, becoming a travelling fellow

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

Radcliffe College

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 in the United States

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, gaining an AM in 1944 and a Ph.D in 1948. In 1951, she became the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and later the Nuffeld Fellow in the summer of 1954.

She was the Greenshields Professor of English Language

English language

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 and Literature

Literature

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 at McGill University

McGill University

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 for most of her early teaching career. She also served from 1957 to 1961 as a member of the Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her literary output mainly concerned the Burney's, best profiled in her award-winning book The History of Fanny Burney, which received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

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, Governor General's Award for Academic Non-Fiction in 1958

1958 Governor General's Awards

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 and the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.

She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was a Protestant.