Helen Sonthoff fonds. 1944-2000.
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University of British Columbia. Department of English
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The UBC Department of English was established in 1915 within the Faculty of Arts, as one of the Universitys first academic departments. It offers courses in English literature, linguistics and composition. Over the years various members of the Department's staff have been prominent within the University community, as well as nationally and internationally, including Earle Birney, Roy Daniells, Jane Rule, Garnett G. Sedgewick, Frederic Wood, and George Woodcock. From the description o...
Sonthoff, Helen, 1916-2000.
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Helen Hubbard Wolfe Sonthoff was born in Rochester, New York, on September 11, 1916. She was educated at Smith College (AB 1937), and Radcliffe College. She taught for some years in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. before coming to the University of British Columbia in 1958 as a Teaching Assistant. Sonthoff, a teacher and scholar of Canadian Literature back in the days when Canadian literature was still struggling to establish itself as a field worthy of study, gained a tenured appointment as ...
