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Philip Child fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1929-1964.

Reference:

R11722-0-6-E, LMS-0011

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3671573

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Philip Child fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1929-1964.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds includes manuscripts and typescripts of "Day of Wrath", "Mr. Ames against Time", "The Village of Souls", "God's Sparrows" and "The Wood of the Nightingale".

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Child, Philip, 1898-1978

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Child, Philip, 1898-1978 : Author and professor of English, Philip Child was born in 1898 in Ontario. His studies at the Trinity College, University of Toronto were interrupted in 1917 by his service as an artillery officer during the First World War. He completed his B.A. at Trinity College, an affiliated B.A. at Christ's College, Cambridge (1921) and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Child worked as a journalist, settlement house worker and taught at the University of British Columbia while producing several novels. He returned to Trinity College as professor in 1942, where he eventually became Chancellor's Professor of English.

Child's published works include: "The Village of Souls" (1933), a post-war modernist novel depicting the adaptation of the European newcomer to the Canadian wilderness; "God's Sparrows" (1937); "The Wood of the Nightingale" (1965), a narrative poem dealing with the Great War; "Day of Wrath" (1945) describing a Jew's fate under Hitler; "Blow Wind, Come Rack" (1954), a spy thriller written under the pseudonym "John Wentworth"; and "Mr. Ames against Time" (1948), which won both the Ryerson Fiction Award and the Governor General's Literary Award.

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Textual records (Paper) File list available. Available in reference room binder. (90: Open)

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Restrictions on access note:

Restrictions: None specified in Guide to Literary Manuscripts. In administrative file, there is indication that the papers are to be restricted during the lifetime of Miss Elizabeth Child (this refers to a later accession not received).

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1 : 1970-01
2 : 1970-01
3 A : 1970-01
3 B : 1970-01
3 C : 1970-01
4 : 1970-01
5 : 1970-01

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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LMS-0011

Other accession no.:

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1970-01 LMS
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0011 1970-01]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1--2;

[Consultation 90 Open]

4--5;

[Consultation 90 Open]

3 A--3 C;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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