O'Grady, Jean (Mary) 1943-

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O'GRADY, Jean (Mary) 1943-

PERSONAL:

Born August 10, 1943, in Bromley, Kent, England; daughter of Frederick W. (in business) and Florence (a homemaker; maiden name, Hurd) Reilly; married Walter O'Grady, March 22, 1966; children: Elizabeth, Jennifer, Caroline. Ethnicity: "British." Education: University of Toronto, B.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1978; Yale University, M.A., 1965. Hobbies and other interests: Gardening, cycling, ecology.

ADDRESSES:

Home—487 Briar Hill Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5N 1M8, Canada. Office—Victoria University, 73 Queen's Park Cres., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7, Canada; fax: 416-585-4584. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, postdoctoral fellow working with the collected works of John Stuart Mill, 1981-91; Victoria University, Toronto, associate editor of the collected works of Northrop Frye, 1994—. Worked as part-time lecturer at Victoria University, Atkinson College, and Ryerson University, between 1965 and 1980.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Alison Prentice Award, Ontario Historical Society, c. 2001, for Margaret Addison: A Biography.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with J. M. Robson) Indexes to the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1991.

Special Writer: An Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of R. E. Knowles in the Toronto Daily "Star" and "Star Weekly," Colombo (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1993.

Famous People Who Have Met Me: The Life and Interviews of R. E. Knowles, Colombo (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1999.

(Editor) Margaret Addison, Diary of a European Tour, McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 1999.

(Editor, with Alvin A. Lee) Northrop Frye on Religion, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000.

(Editor, with Goldwin French) Northrop Frye's Writings on Education, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000.

Margaret Addison: A Biography, McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 2001.

(Editor, with Wang Ning) New Directions in Northrop Frye Studies, Foreign Languages Educational Press (Shanghai, China), 2001.

Contributor to books, including The Cultivated Mind: Essays Presented to J. M. Robson, edited by Michael Laine, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1991; A Century Stronger, edited by Sharon Anne Cook, Lorna R. McLean, and Kate O'Rourke, McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 2001; and Frye and the Word, edited by Jeffery Donaldson and others, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Mill News Letter, Canadian Literature, Victorian Periodicals Review, Northrop Frye Newsletter, and Journal of Canadian Studies. Editor, Newsletter of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, 1990-94.