Professor.
Born at Bedford, Nova Scotia on 8 October 1913, she graduated in arts from Dalhousie and received a PhD from the University of London. After teaching at Dalhousie and Union Theological Seminary, in 1958 she moved to Winnipeg with her husband Kenneth Morrison “Ken” Hamilton and, the following year, joined the Department of English at United College, where she was a specialist in the works of Chaucer, Samuel Beckett, and John Updike. Working there until retirement in 1979, she received the Clifford J. Robson Award for Excellence in Teaching and published five books. She died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 8 November 1991.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 9 November 1991, page 53.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
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