Clara Thomas
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Clara Thomas FRSC (née McCandless; May 22, 1919 – September 26, 2013) was a Canadian academic.[1] A longtime professor of English at York University, she was one of the first academics to devote her work specifically to the study of Canadian literature, and was especially known for her studies of Canadian women writers such as Anna Brownell Jameson, Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Margaret Laurence.[1]
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Clara Thomas | |
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Born | Clara McCandless (1919-05-22)May 22, 1919 |
Died | September 26, 2013(2013-09-26) (aged 94) Strathroy, Ontario, Canada |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Occupation | Academic |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Western Ontario (BA) University of Toronto (PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Northrop Frye |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature |
Sub-discipline | Canadian women writer |
Institutions | York University |
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