Mary Quayle Innis

Mary Emma Quayle Innis (April 13, 1899 – January 10, 1972) was a writer and historian.

Mary Quayle Innis
BornMary Emma Quayle
(1899-04-13)April 13, 1899
St. Mary's, Ohio
DiedJanuary 10, 1972(1972-01-10) (aged 72)
Toronto, Ontario
SpouseHarold Innis
Children4, including Anne Innis Dagg and Donald Quayle Innis

Life

Mary Quayle Innis was born April 13, 1899 in St Mary's, Ohio.[1] 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.[1] 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.[1] Together they had four children, Donald (1924), Mary (1927), Hugh (1930), and Anne (1933).[1]

Innis served as the Dean of Women at University College from 1955-1964.[2]

Innis published over eighty short stories along with a novel, four edited collections and several historical books and articles.[3] She received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University in 1958 and another from the University of Waterloo in 1965.[3]

Innis died in Toronto on January 10, 1972.[2]

Select bibliography
  • Innis, Mary Quayle. 1956. Travellers west. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.[4]
  • 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.[4]
  • Innis, Mary Quayle. Stand on a Rainbow. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944. "fiction, for a juvenile audience" [4]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Scott, Marylynn (16 December 2013). "Mary Quayle Innis". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  3. 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.
  4. World Cat author listing
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