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1.5 m of textual records
71 photographs
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Luella Bruce Creighton was a Canadian author whose works, both fiction and non fiction, were published in the 1950's and 1960's. Born Luella Sanders Bruce on Aug. 25, 1901 in Stouffville, Ontario she taught in a rural school in 1920-1921 prior to attending Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She graduated with a BA in 1926 and married historian and writer Donald Creighton on June 23 of the same year. Her writings include High bright buggy wheels, McClelland & Stewart, 1951; Turn east, turn west, McClelland & Stewart, 1954; Canada, the struggle for empire (non-fiction), Dent, 1960; Canada, trial and triumph (non- fiction), Dent, 1963; Tecumseh, the story of the shawnee chief (juvenile biography), Macmillan, 1965; Miss Multipenny and Miss Crumb, Peal, 1966; The elegant Canadians (non-fiction), McClelland & Stewart, 1967; The hitching post, McClelland & Stewart, 1969. Luella Creighton died in 1996 [?].
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Material documenting Luella Creighton's student days at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1924-1926. Her personal life is further documented through a series of diaries, 1963-1990. Most of the textual material in the fonds, however, relates to her career as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and consists of correspondence with her publishers and readers, reviews, manuscripts and typescripts of both published and unpublished works.
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Donated by Ms. Cynthia Flood in 1996.
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Arranged in 6 series:
1. Victoria College
2. Personal and Family
3. Diaries
4. Correspondence with Publishers and Readers, Contracts, Reviews
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6. Photographs
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A news release about the acquisition titled "New Resources for Women's Studies Papers of Luella Bruce Creighton" appeared in the May 1998 edition of the Library Newsletter (Vol. 29, No. 1).
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- Victoria College (Subject)
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Finding aid by Jane Britton, March 1997.
Electronic version by JB April 17, 2001.
General clean up and file renumbering as part of migration to AtoM in September 2024 by DR.