Professor.
Born in 1931, daughter of Eva Margaret Moore (1911-1986) and Andrew McDonald Young (1905-1954), sister-in-law of William Gordon David Ritchie, she was certified as a piano teacher by the Royal Conservatory of Music. In 1970, she received the first PhD in French from the University of Manitoba.
In 1971, she joined the academic staff at the University, with a research expertise in 20th-century French literature, and was also a member of St. Paul's College, and served on the editorial board of the interdisciplinary literary journal Mosaic. She wrote the books Colette: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1992), The Case for Fr. Charles Dominic French (2004), and Colette and the Conquest of Self (2005). On 9 May 1953, she married Kenneth Conrad “Ken” Norell at Greenwood United Church. They had no children.
She died at Winnipeg on 11 January 2023.
Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
“The Most Humane Institution in All the Village”: The Women’s Rest Room in Rural Manitoba
Manitoba History, Number 11, Spring 1986
Birth registration [Andrew McDonald Young], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Andrew McDonald Young, Eva Margaret Moore], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Norell - Young vows are made,” Winnipeg Free Press, 22 May 1953, page 21.
“Glenboro man, A. McD. Young dies at 48 years,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 January 1954, page 24.
Obituary [Eva Margaret Volland], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 October 1986, page 78.
“A tribute to Donna Norell” by Constance Cartmill, Bulletin of the Department of French, Spanish and Italian, Volume IV & V, 2014-2015.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 22 July 2023.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 September 2023
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