The History of Fanny Burney

Joyce Hemlow (1906–2001) was a Canadian literary scholar and professor best known for her definitive biography The History of Fanny Burney, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Governor General's Award, and Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, and her multi-volume edition of Fanny Burney's Journals and Letters. Born in Liscomb, Nova Scotia, she taught English at McGill University, becoming Greenshields Professor, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.