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Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D , FRSC (
Early life
Born in
Leacock, always of obvious intelligence, was sent by his grandfather to the elite
He left university to go to work teaching - an occupation he disliked immensely - at Strathroy, Uxbridge and finally in Toronto. As a teacher at Upper Canada College, his "alma mater", he was able to simultaneously attend classes at the University of Toronto and, in 1891, earn his degree through part-time studies. It was during this period that his first writing was published in "The Varsity", a campus
Academic and political life
Disillusioned with teaching, in 1899 he began graduate studies at the
He was closely associated with Sir
Leacock was both a
Although he was considered as a Federal candidate for his party, it declined to invite the author, lecturer and maverick to stand for election. Nevertheless, he would stump for local candidates at his summer home.
Literary life
Early in his career Leacock turned to fiction, humour, and short reports to supplement (and ultimately exceed) his regular income. His stories, first published in magazines in Canada and the
During the summer months, he lived at Old Brewery Bay, his summer estate in Orillia, across Lake Simcoe from where he was raised and also bordering
Although he wrote learned articles and books related to his field of study, his political theory is now all but forgotten. Leacock was awarded the
Death and tributes
In 1900 Leacock married Beatrix ("Trix") Hamilton, niece of Sir Henry Pellat who built Casa Loma, the largest castle in North America. In 1915 - after 15 years of marriage - the couple had their only child, Stephen Lushington Leacock. While Leacock doted on the boy, it became apparent early on that "Stevie" suffered from a lack of growth hormone. Growing to be only four feet tall, he had a love-hate relationship with Leacock who tended to treat him like a child.
Predeceased by Trix (who had died of breast cancer in 1925), Leacock was survived by Stevie, who died in his fifties. In accordance with his wishes, after his death from throat cancer, Leacock was cremated and buried at Sibbald Point in Georgina Township near his boyhood home and across Lake Simcoe from his summer home.
Shortly after his death, Barbara Nimmo, his niece,
In 1947, the
A number of buildings in Canada are named after Leacock, including the Stephen Leacock Building at McGill University, [ [http://cac.mcgill.ca/campus/Buildings/Stephen_Leacock.html Stephen Leacock Building] ] a theatre in
creen adaptations
Two Leacock short stories have been adapted as
Bibliography
*"Elements of Political Science" (1906)
*"Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government" (1907)
*"Practical Political Economy" (1910)
*"Literary Lapses" (1910)
*"Nonsense Novels" (1911)
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*"Behind the Beyond" (1913)
*"Adventurers of the Far North" (1914)
*"The Dawn of Canadian History" (1914)
*"The Mariner of St. Malo" (1914)
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*"Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy" (1915)
*"Essays and Literary Sudies" (1916)
*"Further Foolishness" (1916)
*"Frenzied Fiction" (1918)
*"The Hohenzollerns in America" (1919)
*"Winsome Winnie" (1920)
*"The Unsolved Riddle of Social Injustice" (1920)
*"My Discovery of England" (1922)
*"College Days" (1923)
*"Over the Footlights" (1923)
*"The Garden of Folly" (1924)
*"Mackenzie, Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks" (1926)
*"Winnowed Wisdom" (1926)
*"Short Circuits" (1928)
*"The Iron Man and the Tin Woman" (1929)
*"Economic Prosperity in the British Empire" (1930)
*"The Economic Prosperity of the British Empire" (1931)
*"The Dry Pickwick" (1932)
*"Afternoons in Utopia" (1932)
*"Mark Twain" (1932)
*"Charles Dickens: His Life and Work" (1933)
*"Humour: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples" (1935)
*"Hellements of Hickonomics in Hiccoughs of Verse Done in Our Social Planning Mill" (1936)
*"Funny Pieces" (1936)
*"The Greatest Pages of American Humor" (1936)
*"Here Are My Lectures" (1937)
*"Humour and Humanity" (1937)
*"My Discovery of the West" (1937)
*"Model Memoirs" (1938)
*"Too Much College" (1939)
*"The British Empire" (1940)
*"Canada: The Foundations of Its Future" (1941)
*"My Remarkeable Uncle" (1942)
*"Our Heritage of Liberty" (1942)
*"Montreal: Seaport and City" (1942)
*"Happy Stories" (1943)
*"How to Write" (1943)
*"Canada and the Sea" (1944)
*"While There Is Time" (1945)
*"Last Leaves" (1945)
*"The Boy I Left Behind Me" (1946)
*"Wet Wit and Dry Humor"
*"Laugh with Leacock"
*"Back to Prosperity"
*"The Greatest Pages of Charles Dickens"
*"Essays and Literary Studies"
Quotes
*"Lord Ronald ... flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions." -- "Nonsense Novels," "Gertrude the Governess", 1911
*"Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." –
*"Mr Leacock is as 'bracing' as the seaside place of John Hassall's famous poster. His wisdom is always humorous, and his humour is always wise." – "Sunday Times"
*"He is still inimitable. No one, anywhere in the world, can reduce a thing to ridicule with such few short strokes. He is the
References
* Legate, David M. "Stephen Leacock: A Biography." 1970. Doubleday, Toronto.
* Moritz, Albert & Theresa. "Leacock: A Biography." 1985. Stoddart Publishing, Toronto.
* Ferris, Ina. 1978. "The Face in the Window: "Sunshine Sketches" Reconsidered," "Studies in Canadian Literature" University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. [http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol3_2/&filename=Ferris.htm] .
External links
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/leacock/t5-211-e.html Stephen Leacock, A Biographical Sketch] National Library of Canada
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/leacock/t5-214-e.html Brief Chronology of Leacock's Life] National Library of Canada
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/leacock/t5-216-e.html Chronology of Leacock's writings] National Library of Canada
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/leacock/t5-241-e.html Commentary on "Sunshine Sketches"] National Library of Canada
* [http://www.scenarioproductions.com/cbc/STAGE_SERIES/9.htm "Sunshine Sketches Radio Play"] CBC Radio Adaptation 1946
* [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=leacock+stephen&amode=start Online Books by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg texts)]
* [http://ontarioplaques.com/Plaque_York07.html Ontario Plaques - Stephen Butler Leacock]
* [http://slapcast.com/users/revry Many Stephen Leacock stories read in Mister Ron's Basement] Podcast
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* [http://cac.mcgill.ca/campus/buildings/Stephen_Leacock.html The Stephen Leacock Building at McGill University]
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