Background
Hemlow, Joyce was born on July 30, 1906 in Liscomb, Nova Scotia, Canada. Daughter of William and Rosalinda (Redmond) Hemlow.
author language and literature educator
Hemlow, Joyce was born on July 30, 1906 in Liscomb, Nova Scotia, Canada. Daughter of William and Rosalinda (Redmond) Hemlow.
Bachelor, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 1941. Master of Arts, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 1942. A.M., Harvard University, 1944.
Doctor of Philosophy, Radcliffe College, 1948. Doctor of Laws, Queen's, 1967. Doctor of Laws, Dalhousie University, 1972.
Member faculty, McGill University, since 1945;Greenshields Professor of English literature and language, McGill University, since 1965;professor emerita, McGill University, since 1975.
Author: The History of Fanny Burney, 1958 (James Tait Black Memorial book prize for best biography in United Kingdom, also Governor General Canada medal for academic non-fiction 1958, Rose Mary Crawshay prize British Academy 1960). Editor: Journals and Letters Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay), 12 vols., Fanny Burney: Selected Letters and Journals, 1986, 87.
Fellow Royal Society Canada. Member Johnsonians, International Association University professors English, Phi Beta Kappa. F C.