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margaet Addison Margaret Addison Margaret Addison A Biography JEAN O'GRADY McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca © McGill-Queen's University Press 2001 ISBN 0-7735-2152-6 Legal deposit second quarter 2001 Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper This book has been published with the help of a grant from Victoria University. McGill-Queen's University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for its activities. It also acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data O'Grady, Jean, 1943- Margaret Addison: a biography Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7735-2152-6 1. Addison, Margaret, 1868-1940. 2. Deans of women - Ontario - Toronto - Biography. 3. Victoria College (Toronto, Ont.) - Biography. 4. Victoria College (Toronto, Ont.). Annesley Hall - History. 1. Title. LE3.T618A335 2001 378.i'94'092 coo-900975-2 Typeset in Palatino 10/12 by Caractera inc., Quebec City For my husband, Walter This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Credits for Illustrations x Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 3 1 Growing Up 11 2 Student and Teacher 30 3 European Interlude 55 4 Towards a New Career 79 5 Early Days of the Residence 90 6 Residence Life 118 7 War Years 139 8 Turmoil and Recovery 166 9 Dean of Women 188 10 An Active Retirement 207 Notes 233 Index 265 This page intentionally left blank illustrations Margaret Addison Frontispiece Annesley Hall on the occasion of a royal visit, 1905 85 Peter and Mary Addison around the time of their marriage 19 The sitting room at Annesley Hall 88 Margaret as a child, with her brothers Arthur and William 21 Officers and women residents sitting on the steps of Annesley The Addison family 27 Hall, c. 1908 106 Margaret Addison as a young Students in a room at Annesley woman 29 Hall, 1910 120 Victoria College at Cobourg 31 Chancellor and Mrs Burwash 129 The class of 1889 at Victoria Margaret Addison seated on the College 39 Annesley staircase with Margaret Addison as a residents 151 graduate 40 Margaret Addison in the Annesley common room with Blanche Athena Clough of residents 152 Newnham College 76 South Hall Women's Union 153 Annie Rogers of the AEW in Oxford JJ Vincent and Alice Massey 169 Margaret Addison in the Lindsay Portrait of Margaret Addison by period 81 McGillivray Knowles, 1925 200 Margaret with her mother and her Margaret Addison, c. 1940 222 sister Charlotte around 1900 82 A picnic at Tiny Beach Margaret with her mother and her cottage 223 brother Will 83
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