It is with sadness that Q&Q learned this morning of the death of agent and editor Frances Hanna at the age of 67. Hanna was the managing director of Acacia House Publishing Services, which counted among its clients noted author Helen Humphreys. In addition to being an agent and editor, Hanna was also a translator. From the obituary in The Globe and Mail:

[Hanna] began her publishing career in London, England in 1969 as Assistant Fiction Editor working with Christopher Maclehose at Barrie & Jenkins. Subsequently, she worked as an agent at the John Farquharson literary agency and part-time as a bookseller, then as Executive Editor for Walter Parrish International, a UK book packager. In 1973, Frances became a senior commissioning editor for Sonny Mehta (now Publisher of Alfred A. Knopf, New York) at Pan Books in London. In 1976 she returned to Canada to become the Condensed Books Editor (working in English and French) for Reader’s Digest in Montreal. In 1982 she moved to Toronto to become senior editor and foreign rights manager at William Collins Sons & Company (now Harper Collins).

Hanna was the wife of publishing stalwart Bill Hanna. The two relocated from Toronto to Brantford, Ontario, in 2006.