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Student, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.

Eliza Fitzgerald was one of the first woman graduates from Queen's University.

Professor, organist and composer, Kingston, ON.

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Businessman, Hamilton, Ont.

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). However, beginning in the 1950s Hardy has been recognized as a major poet; he had a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Phillip Larkin.

Most of his fictional works – initially published as serials in magazines – were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. They explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England.

E.V. Hill was an extra-mural student who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1931, from Queen's University at Kingston.

Clergyman, Grimsby, Ont.

Olga B. Bishop, a very well-known author of guides to Canadian government information, began her publishing career with Publications of the Governments of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick: 1758-1952 (Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1957), and then went on to study government publishing in Ontario, and for the country as a whole.
Bishop was the first Canadian woman to receive graduate and postgraduate degrees in library science. She was also the first woman in librarianship to receive a Doctor of Laws honourary degree while still practicing the profession.