Hidden Authors

Scholarship

• 2018
  “Mary Quayle Innis: Faculty Wives’ Contributions and the Making of Academic Celebrity”

  With Kiera Mitchell. The Canadian Historical Review 99, no. 3 (2018): 456–86. DOI: 10.3138/chr.2017-0108 Open Access

  Honourable Mention, Hilda Neatby Article Prize Mary Quayle Innis spent decades editing, researching, and supporting the work that made Harold Innis one of Canada’s most celebrated thinkers. This article recovers her contributions and asks what the institution of the “faculty wife” concealed about the production of academic knowledge.
• 2013
  "Guilty Pleasures: Consumer Culture in the Fiction of Mary Quayle Innis"

  In Consuming Modernity: Changing Gendered Behaviours and Consumerism, 1919–1945, ed. Cheryl Warsh and Dan Malleck, 258–73. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013. [Full text: pending clearance]

  Mary Quayle Innis was not only a scholar’s wife. She was a novelist and writer in her own right. This chapter examines her fiction as a site where she worked through the tensions of consumer modernity.

Mary Quayle Innis: A Bibliography

Mary Quayle Innis (1899–1972) was a novelist, short story writer, historian, editor, and public intellectual. She published more than eighty short stories and essays, one novel, three historical books, several scholarly articles, and four edited collections. This bibliography makes that work visible.

Single-Authored Publications

Skip to: Edited, Co-Authored, and Revised Publications

Books

• 1920
  April: Poems. Chicago: Print Shop, School of Education, University of Chicago, 1920.
• 1935
  An Economic History of Canada. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1935; revised edition 1943.
• 1943
  Stand on a Rainbow. Toronto: Collins, 1943.
• 1949
  Unfold the Years: A History of the Young Women’s Christian Association in Canada. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1949.
• 1951
  Changing Canada. 2 vols. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1951, 1952.
• 1956
  Travellers West. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1956.

Canadian Forum

19 stories and poems, 1922–1935.

• 1922
  “The Moon Fishers.” Canadian Forum 2, no. 22 (1922): 694.
• 1922
  “Quarrel.” Canadian Forum 2, no. 23 (1922): 722–3.
• 1923
  “In the Sugar Bush.” Canadian Forum 3, no. 29 (1923): 143–4, 146–8.
• 1923
  “Return.” Canadian Forum 4, no. 38 (1923): 48.
• 1924
  “Wood-Box.” Canadian Forum 4, no. 41 (1924): 144–5.
• 1927
  “The Forest Wife.” Canadian Forum 7, no. 83 (1927): 333.
• 1927
  “Drums.” Canadian Forum 8, no. 86 (1927): 430–1.
• 1928
  “Trader.” Canadian Forum 8, no. 95 (1928): 752, 754–5.
• 1929
  “Guide to the Sea.” Canadian Forum 9, no. 100 (1929): 126, 128–9.
• 1930
  “Schooling.” Canadian Forum 10, no. 113 (1930): 164–6.
• 1930
  “Recital.” Canadian Forum 11, no. 121 (1930): 14–15.
• 1930
  “Old Man.” Canadian Forum 11, no. 123 (1930): 94–5.
• 1931
  “Party.” Canadian Forum 11, no. 129 (1931): 334–6.
• 1931
  “Aunt Belle.” Canadian Forum 11, no. 132 (1931): 455–6.
• 1932
  “Holiday.” Canadian Forum 12, no. 136 (1932): 140–2.
• 1932
  “Substitute.” The Midland 19 (1932): 123.
• 1932
  “Wedding Days.” Canadian Forum 13, no. 147 (1932): 102–4.
• 1933
  “Two Ears.” Canadian Forum 13, no. 155 (1933): 418–21.
• 1934
  “Gift.” Canadian Forum 14, no. 165 (1934): 349–51.
• 1935
  “Brotherhood.” Canadian Forum 15, no. 173 (1935): 188–9.

Scholarly Articles and Other Periodicals

Dalhousie Review, Ontario Historical Society, New Frontier, and other venues.

• 1936
  “Geordie.” Publications of the Writer’s Club (1936): 39–44.
• 1936
  “The Record of an Epidemic.” Dalhousie Review 16 (1936): 55–60.
• 1936
  “Staver.” New Frontier 1, no. 1 (1936): 173–81.
• 1937
  “The Industrial Development of Ontario, 1783–1820.” Ontario Historical Society 32 (1937): 104–13.
• 1937
  “Philip Henry Gosse in Canada.” Dalhousie Review 17 (1937): 55–60.
• 1940
  “A Galt Centenary.” Dalhousie Review 19 (1940): 495–501.

Saturday Night

64 short stories and essays, 1937–1949.

• 1937
  “Builders of the Nation.” Saturday Night, 13 February 1937, 1–2.
• 1938
  “Case of Poor Cyril.” Saturday Night, 23 April 1938, 1.
• 1938
  “Lambie in the Park.” Saturday Night, 20 August 1938, 1.
• 1939
  “Lava with Penny.” Saturday Night, 6 May 1939, 24.
• 1939
  “Lady with Ash Tray.” Saturday Night, 29 July 1939, 20.
• 1939
  “Coming Back.” Saturday Night, 12 August 1939, 20.
• 1939
  “The Wave.” Saturday Night, 23 December 1939.
• 1940
  “News from Abroad.” Saturday Night, 13 January 1940, 20.
• 1940
  “Romance.” Saturday Night, 18 May 1940, 36.
• 1940
  “Vine.” Saturday Night, 15 June 1940, 28.
• 1940
  “Club Meeting.” Saturday Night, 13 July 1940, 20.
• 1940
  “Chinaberry tree.” Saturday Night, 24 August 1940, 20.
• 1940
  “Back Home to a New World.” Saturday Night, 14 September 1940, 39.
• 1940
  “Whither, O Ship.” Saturday Night, 30 November 1940, 33.
• 1941
  “Folk Play.” Saturday Night, 18 January 1941, 29.
• 1941
  “Valentine.” Saturday Night, 15 February 1941, 29.
• 1941
  “Night of the Recital.” Saturday Night, 28 June 1941, 29.
• 1941
  “Don’t You Hear Me?” Saturday Night, 8 November 1941, 29.
• 1942
  “Mornings at Nine.” Saturday Night, 31 January 1942, 25.
• 1942
  “Every Vote Counts.” Saturday Night, 2 May 1942, 25.
• 1942
  “Tape Measure.” Saturday Night, 27 June 1942, 31.
• 1942
  “Quiet Haven of War.” Saturday Night, 8 August 1942, 21.
• 1942
  “End of the Summer.” Saturday Night, 29 August 1942, 21.
• 1942
  “Harvest Home.” Saturday Night, 21 November 1942, 33.
• 1942
  “Day to Keep Always.” Saturday Night, 12 December 1942, 48–9.
• 1942
  “But Peaceful.” Saturday Night, 26 December 1942, 22.
• 1943
  “Youngest of the Family.” Saturday Night, 23 January 1943, 29.
• 1943
  “Stamp on a White Horse.” Saturday Night, 15 May 1943, 37.
• 1943
  “Six or Seven Mice.” Saturday Night, 7 August 1943, 25.
• 1943
  “Beauty’s Mirror.” Saturday Night, 4 September 1943, 29.
• 1943
  “Minister’s Cat.” Saturday Night, 25 September 1943, 32–3.
• 1943
  “New Plan: One Meal on Sunday.” Saturday Night, 16 October 1943, 33.
• 1943
  “Holiday with Accent.” Saturday Night, 6 November 1943, 29.
• 1943
  “Opportunists’ Day.” Saturday Night, 20 November 1943, 33.
• 1943
  “Original Sweater Girl.” Saturday Night, 11 December 1943, 35.
• 1943
  “Yam – and Blanche.” Saturday Night, 18 December 1943, 24.
• 1944
  “Repentance: An Unimproving Tale Of Canadian Childhood.” Saturday Night, 26 August 1944, 59.
• 1944
  “How Foolish to Race When There Are Girls Who Want to Win.” Saturday Night, 30 September 1944, 25.
• 1944
  “Lived-In Look; Or Quaint Gourds And Pottery Figures.” Saturday Night, 2 December 1944, 36–7.
• 1945
  “Miasm before Breakfast: Godey’s Lady’s Book and Its Editor.” Saturday Night, 24 February 1945.
• 1945
  “One of the Duck Family: Three Cakes of Yeast in a Bag.” Saturday Night, 28 April 1945, 32–3.
• 1945
  “White-Winged Treasures and the Sixties’ Art of Invective.” Saturday Night, 5 May 1945.
• 1945
  “Old Mills and Clay Dishes Are Old Mills and Clay Dishes.” Saturday Night, 9 June 1945, 32–3.
• 1945
  “Little Good Music with Some Incidental Off-Stage Noises.” Saturday Night, 8 September 1945, 36–7.
• 1945
  “Donna, You’re the Oldest, Donna, Come Here, Donna, Sing, Donna.” Saturday Night, 29 September 1945, 32–3.
• 1945
  “Holly with Berries for Erie: We Wept When We Remembered Zion.” Saturday Night, 1 December 1945, 40–1.
• 1946
  “Grass by the Side of Different Roads Looks Very Much Alike.” Saturday Night, 9 February 1946, 33.
• 1946
  “White Skirts Passing.” Saturday Night, 22 June 1946, 32–3.
• 1946
  “‘Sport’ Has His Day.” Saturday Night, 24 August 1946, 25.
• 1946
  “Our Motion is Low.” Saturday Night, 12 October 1946, 49.
• 1947
  “They Don’t Realize.” Saturday Night, 25 January 1947.
• 1947
  “‘Fine’ by Definition.” Saturday Night, 1 February 1947, 21.
• 1947
  “Great Uncle with Zebra.” Saturday Night, 15 February 1947, 37.
• 1947
  “Hair Ribbon.” Saturday Night, 1 March 1947, 25.
• 1947
  “The Advance of Scholarship.” Saturday Night, 5 April 1947, 29.
• 1947
  “Pleasures of a Poor Memory.” Saturday Night, 3 May 1947, 25.
• 1947
  “Quest for an Uninhabited Quince Eaten with a Runcible Spoon.” Saturday Night, 11 October 1947, 39.
• 1947
  “One of the Crowd.” Saturday Night, 25 October 1947, 37.
• 1948
  “Morning in Paris.” Saturday Night, 2 October 1948, 25.
• 1948
  “Enter with Fanfare.” Saturday Night, 9 October 1948, 29.
• 1949
  “Blenheim Palace Is Breathtaking but Tea Is Very Important Too.” Saturday Night, 22 March 1949, 18–19.
• 1949
  “There’s Still Nothing to Compare with That Voyage ‘Back Home.’” Saturday Night, 31 May 1949, 13.
• 1949
  “A Dream under Canvas.” Saturday Night, 7 June 1949, 29.
• 1949
  “Night at Miss Koenig’s.” Saturday Night, 2 August 1949, 21.

Later Writing

United Church Observer, Globe and Mail, and Globe Magazine, 1968–1971.

• 1968
  “From Where I Sit.” United Church Observer, 15 May 1968, 28.
• 1968
  “I Like Growing Old.” United Church Observer, 15 September 1968, 22–3.
• 1969
  “Little Girls in Good Old Days Wore Pongee.” Globe and Mail, 16 October 1969, W4.
• 1969
  “The Sunshine and Shadow of Living Alone.” United Church Observer, 15 December 1969, 12–13.
• 1971
  “Once a Loser.” Globe Magazine, 22 May 1971, 16.
• 1971
  “Grandma in Wonderland.” United Church Observer, January 1971, 32–3.
• 1971
  “Learning about Death.” United Church Observer, August 1971, 20–1.
• 1971
  “Lessons from Living.” United Church Observer, November 1971, 31.

Edited, Co-Authored, and Revised Publications

• 1930
  Innis, Harold. The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History, revised by Mary Quayle Innis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1930; reprinted 1956.
• 1954
  Innis, Mary Quayle, A. Cameron, and A. Boggs. Living in Canada. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1954.
• 1954
  Innis, Mary Quayle, S.D. Clark, and W.T. Easterbrook. “Preface.” In Harold Innis, The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy, revised by Mary Quayle Innis, S.D. Clark, and W.T. Easterbrook. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1954.
• 1956
  Innis, Harold. Essays in Canadian Economic History, edited by Mary Quayle Innis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956.
• 1956
  Innis, Mary Quayle, S.D. Clark, and W.T. Easterbrook. “Preface.” In Harold Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History, revised by Mary Quayle Innis, S.D. Clark, and W.T. Easterbrook. New Haven: Yale University, 1956.
• 1965
  Innis, Mary Quayle. “Introduction.” In Elizabeth Simcoe, Mrs. Simcoe’s Diary, revised by Mary Quayle Innis. Toronto: Macmillan, 1965.
• 1966
  Innis, Mary Quayle. “Introduction.” In The Clear Spirit: Twenty Canadian Women and Their Times, edited by Mary Quayle Innis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966.
• 1970
  Innis, Mary Quayle, ed. Nursing Education in a Changing Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.
• 1972
  Innis, Harold. Empire and Communications, revised by Mary Quayle Innis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.

Bibliography compiled by Donica Belisle, 2026. Based on Appendix 1 in Donica Belisle and Kiera Mitchell, “Mary Quayle Innis: Faculty Wives’ Contributions and the Making of Academic Celebrity,” The Canadian Historical Review 99, no. 3 (2018): 456–86.