Mary L. Northway Papers. 1921-2000.

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Mary L. Northway Papers. 1921-2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225562877

The collection consists of Mary Northway's personal and professional papers. These include her work as lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto (1933-58), but mainly relate to her career as a lecturer and eventually director of research of the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto (1938-68) and her work as director of the Brora Institute (1969-78). Included are research notes and charts relating to her work in sociometry as well as draft manuscripts and typescripts of many of her writings. A second accession consists of material donated by John M. Hodgson. It includes manuscripts and inscribed copies of Northway's work, biographical information, and minutes and other documents produced at the Brora Institute and the Neathern Trust.

62 boxes (9 metres)

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

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Northway, Mary L. (Mary Louise), 1910-1978.

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Dr. Mary Louise Northway, born in 1909, was educated in Toronto and graduated from the University of Toronto (B.A. 1933, M.A. 1934, and Ph. D. 1938) and did her graduate work at Cambridge University in England. She taught psychology at the University of Toronto from 1934 to 1968, and the last fifteen years of her tenure were as Supervisor of Research at the Institute of Child Study. She also earned international recognition as a pioneer in the field of Sociometry. She died in 1988. F...