Clara Thomas

Clara Thomas, née McCandless (May 22, 1919 - September 26, 2013) was a Canadian academic. A longtime professor of English at York University, she was one of the first academics to devote herself specifically to the study of Canadian literature, and was especially known for her studies of Canadian women writers such as Anna Brownell Jameson, Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Margaret Laurence.