Authors to be included

Updated 17 April 2014

This list has been superseded by the Database of Canada’s Early Women Writers, a simpler database which includes the names and basic information for all of the Canadian women authors who published up to and including 1950, whether or not we have complete information. The new database is currently under construction; it should be populated with our existing data by the end of June 2017.

The following authors are to be added to the existing database.  We are currently amassing information and building a file for each, which will be translated into a digital entry in the near future.

Abell, Helen Caroline
1917-2005

Aberdeen, Ishbel
1857-1939
Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair; Lady Aberdeen; née Marjoribanks

Adamowska, Maria
1890-1961
née Olynyk

Adeney, Jeanne
1903-1992
Jeanne Ardis Burt

Aikens, Charlotte Albina
1867-1949

Aitken, Melita
1866-1945

Alden, Margaret Hamilton
b. 1863
Margaret H. Alden, Margaret Hamilton Thomson

Aldwinckle, Jo
1906-2001
nee Lois Josephine Rosa Pursey

Allan, Iris
b. 1910

Allan, Marguerite Martha
1895-1942

Andersen, Doris Hilda
1921-2007
Doris Isabel Crompton Andersen

Andrews, Nellie
1864-1958
Mrs. Nellie Andrews; née Greenwood

Angus, Annie Margaret (Anderson)
1901-
Mrs. Henry Forbes Anderson; Dr. A.M. Anderson

Angus, Mary Edith Dunckley
b. 1850

Armstrong, Hannah
1842-1919

Armstrong, Isabel C.
d. 1951

Arnett, Laura Vivian Belvadere
1878-1984
née Todd

Arnold, Gladys

Atkinson, Elmira Elliott
“Madge Merton”; “Clip Carew”; “Frances Burton Clare”; Ella Atkinson

Ball, Helen
b. 1897

Barbour, Constance
1916-1960
née Katharine Constance Barbour; Mrs. Melvin William Holbein

Barbour, Sheila
1920-1943
“Sidney Martin” “Sydney Martin”

Battle, Clare
“Beth”

Beals, Jessie Tarbox

Beattie, Jeann
1922-2005

Beattie, Jessie L.
“Rainbow”

Bell, Dorothy

Belnap, Celeste

Belnap, Jane

Bennett, Annie
b. 1859
Mrs. Annie Bennett; “Gena MacFarlane”

Benson, Clara Cynthia
1875-1964

Bentley, Verna Bessie
b. 1904
“Verna Loveday Harden”; “Verna”; Mrs. Orville Clifton Bentley; “The Duchess”

Beresford-Howe, Constance Elizabeth
b. 1922

Beresford, Molly
1885-1960
Mary Agnes Beresford

Bernard, Gertrude Philomen
1906-1986
“Anahareo”

Bibb, Mary

Bicknell, Minnie Evans

Binnie-Clark, Georgina
1871-1947

Bishop, Blanche M.

Bishop, Elizabeth
1911-1979

Black, Elinor Frances Elizabeth
1905-1982

Black, Florence Deacon
“Rose Rambler”

Blake, Mrs. Catherine

Boak, Ethel Frances Lawson

Bodington, Alice
1840-1897

Boggs, Mamie Moloney

Bompas, Charlotte Selina
1830-1917
“C. S. B.”; née Cox

Boomer, Harriet Ann
1835-1921
Harriett Roche; Mrs. Harriett A. Mills

Boultbee, Rosamund

Boulton, Constance Rudyard

Boyd, Gladys Lilllian
b. 1893
Dr. Gladys L. Boyd, MD

Boyd, Jessie Drummond
Mrs. Jessie Drummond Boyd; Jessie Drummond

Bradley, Mary Coy
1771-1859

Brass, Eleanor
1905-1992

Brodlique, Eve
Eve Brodlique Summers

Brooks, Harriet
later Pitcher

Buchan, Jane

Bundy, Freda Graham
1895-1962

Butler, Ethel Huestis

Butler, Lucy
1841-1906

Caldwell, Anne Irene McLean

Campbell, Elizabeth Louise Bethune

Campbell, Marjorie Freeman
b. 1896

Cannell, Kathleen

Carr, Emily
1871-1945

Carten, Laura Paty
1882-1960

Carter, Gwendolyn Margaret
b. 1906

Chaureth, Sophie Berthelette
b. 1799

Chesley, Mary Russell

Chipman, Eliza
1807-1853

Churchill, Matilda Moore Faulkner
1840-1924
Mrs. George Churchill

Chute, Hettie Morse
1888-1962

Clare, Eva
1884-1961

Clint, Mabel Brown
1874-1939

Coburn, Kathleen (Hazel)
1905-1991

Coghill, Linnie Edna Allen

Complin, Margaret (Robertson)

Copleston, Mrs. Edward

Cormack, Barbara Villy
1903-1991

Cornell, Mary

Courtice, Ada Mary
1860-1923
neé Brown

Cowan, Annie Ironside (Simpson)
1859-1952

Cowley, Mrs. A. T.

Craig, Mary Coad
1871-1951
“Duncan Clark, MD”

Cran, Mrs. Marion
née Dudley

Crawford, Emma Naomi

Crawford, Isabel Alice Hartley
1865-1961

Crawford, Isabell C.
c1873-1958

Creelman, Lyle Morrison
1908-

Creighton, Helen
b. 1899

Creswicke, Mary Elizabeth Fortier
1870-1947
née Spry; May Creswicke; Mrs. Alfred Edwin Horace Creswicke

Crook, Hilda Buckman
1893-1986

Cruikshank, Julia E.
1855-1921
née Kennedy

Cryderman, Ethel Mildred
1892-1963

Cumming, Leonie MacNeill
b. 1903
Léonie

Cummings, Emily McCausland
1851-1930
née Shortt; Mrs. Willoughby Cummings; Emily Ann McCausland

Cuppage, Edith Madeleine
1884-1972
née Reade

Currie, Emma Augusta
1829-1913
née Harvey

Currie, Margaret

Darroch, Lois
1912-2004

Davidson, True

Davies, Hilda A.
“Tanis”

Davin, Elizabeth Jane
née Reid

Davis, Adeline (Chisholm)
1844-1919
Addie Chisholm; Lady Foster; Mrs. Daniel Black Chisholm; Mrs. George Eulas Foster

Davis, Mary Lee

Deeks, Florence Amelia
1864-1959
“Adul Weaver”

Delany, Theresa
c1865-1913

Denison, Grace
1853-1914
Mrs. Alfred Denison; “Lady Gay”

Dennis, Clara Gertrude
1881-1958

Dickie, Margaret
1827-1908

Dobbin, Mrs. C. A. (Nina)
“George Graham”

Downe, A. R.
“Lynette”; Mrs. Herbert Ernest Downe

Downes, Gwladys V.
1915-2005

Doyle, Caroline

Draper, Edith Augusta
d. 1941

Dumbrille, Dorothy
1897/8-1981
Mrs J. T. Smith

Dunington-Grubb, Lorrie Alfreda
b. 1877

Durand, Laura Bradshaw
1869-1925

Earle, Mrs. C. W.

Eaton, Lucy C.

Edgar, Florence Hester
c.1874-1944
née Hayes

Edgar, Maud Caroline
d. 1960

Edwards, Henrietta Muir
1849-1931

Eggleston, Magdelana Raškevičiutė
1907-
Mrs. Wilfrid Eggleston; Magdalena (often misspelled thus)

Elliott, Margaret E.
b. 1895
Margaret Elizabeth Elliott Barnard; Mrs. Leslie Gordon Barnard

Ellis, Katheleen Wilhelmina
1888-1968

Emory, Florence Helen Maud
1889-1987
Florence H.M. Emory, Florence Helen Maud Emory

Evans, Marguerite
b. 1876

Fairley, Grace Mitchell
1881-1969

Fairley, Margaret Adele
1885-1968
née Keeling

Fairweather, Marion
1846-1923

Farquharson, Mary Frederica
née McLean; Rica McLean Farquharson

Farr, Edith May
1864-1956

Ferne, Doris Maud
Mrs. E. G. Ferne

Fessenden, Clementina
1843-1918
née Trenholm

Field, Mrs. Edith
b. 1864
née Coventry

Finlayson, Isobel
1811-1890

Firkins, Yvonne
1892-1966
Yvonne Millicent Firkins

Firth, Rose Lyle
1893-1969
R.L. Firth; Mrs. Roland Firth

Fitch, Adelaide P.
1853-1944
Adelaide Paddock Fitch

Fitzgibbon, Agnes
1831-1913
née Agnes Dunbar Moodie; m. Fitzgibbon (1850); m. Chamberlin (1870)

Fitzgibbon, Mary Agnes
1851-1915

Forsyth-Grant, Minnie Caroline
d. 1923
née Robinson; Mrs. W. Forsyth-Grant

Foster, Miss T.D.
Mrs. Rev. Henry Giles

Fraser, Hermia Harris
b. 1902

French, Maida Parlow
1891-1977
Mrs. Arthur Knowles; Mrs. Donald French

Fritz, Madeleine Alberta
b. 1896

Führer, Charlotte
1834-1907

Fyles, Faith
1875-1961

Gairns, Sadie

Gale, Annie
1876-1970
Hannah Rolinson Gale

Galloway, Margaret Agnes
Mrs. Margaret A. McDiarmid

Garbutt, Anna Dorothy (Colcleugh)
1897-1988
Dorothy Garbutt

Garland, Bessie
née Ford

Gerin-Lajoie, Marie
née Lacoste

Godfrey, Norah (Fraser)
d. c.1948
Norah Fraser Godfrey

Goodhand, Henrietta McIntosh

Gordon, Wilhelmina
1885-1968
Prof. Wilhelmina Gordon

Gowan, Elsie Park
1906-1999

Gowanlock, Theresa
1863-1899

Graham, Ellen Maud
b. 1876
Mrs. Frederick Millar

Graham, Jean
“J.G.”

Gray, Mabel F.
1880-1976

Gregory-Flesher, Helen

Gunn, Jean Isabel
1882-1941

Haight, Jennie E.

Hall, Florence
1864-1917

Hall, Florence Sarah Hussey)
1864-1917

Hall, Gertrude May
1897-1960

Hall, Mary Georgina Caroline
Mrs. Cecil Hall

Hango, Angeline Rose
1909-1995
“Angeline Bleuets”; Mrs. J. R. Hango

Hargrave, Letitia MacTavish
1813-1854

Harmer, Bertha
1885-1934

Harmer, Gertrude

Harrington, Charlotte Geddie
1840-1906

Harris, Amelia Ryerse
1798-1882

Harris, Bess Larkin Housser
1890-1969

Harris, Leila Gott
1900-1986
nee Leila Berdina Gott

Harris, Martha Douglas
1854-1933

Haultain, Elsinore MacPherson
1894-1986
née MacPherson; Mrs. Robert Mitchell Haultain

Hay, Lillian Robertson
1895-1942
née Robertson; “Clare Lane”

Hedges, Doris
b. 1900
Mrs. G.P. Hedges; née Ryde

Henderson, Anna Minerva
1887-1987

Henderson, Isabel Elizabeth
“Elinor Marsden Eliot”; Beth Henderson

Henderson, Mrs. Mary Le Rossignol
1840-1935
née Gillispie

Hendrie, Lilian Margaret

Henry, Eileen Almyra (Cameron)
Mrs. Eric Henry

Herring, Frances Elizabeth
b. 1851
née Clarke

Hersey, Mabel Frances
1872-1943

Heustis, Caroline E.

Hewlett, Annie Elizabeth May
née Brown; May Hewlett; Mrs. Richard Hewlett (fonds says Mrs. Arthur Hewlett); “Mater”; A. E. M. Hewlett

Hibbard, Mary Eugenie
1856-1946

Hill, Agnes Isabel Aston
1887-1964
“Aunt Marian”; Agnes A. Hill (CPM)

Hogan, Aileen I.
1899-1981

Hogg, Jessie Winnifred Gourlie
1861-1915

Holland, Ermina Carpenter
1880-1964

Hollis, Annie L.
1871-1941
née Snaith

Holman, Edna Lake Bourne

Honeyman, Elspeth
1890-1962
Mrs. T. E. Clarke

Hoodless, Adelaide Sophia Hunter
1858-1910

Hooke, Hilda Mary
b. 1898
Mrs. Richard Tapscott Smith

Howey, Florence Rozelgha Ward
1856?-1936

Huber, Mary B.

Huestis, Annie Campbell
1848-1960

Hughes, Katherine
1876-1925

Hume, Blanche
1880-1968

Hutchinson, Sybil

Iglauer, (Daly), Edith
b. 1917

Irwin, Ruth
née Inglis

Jackson, Mary Percy
1904-2000

Jameson, Anna Brownell
1794-1860

Jarvis, Hannah
1763-1845

Johns, Ethel Mary Incledon

Johnson, Amelia Etta Hall
1858-1922

Johnson, Natalie Gordon
née Wilson

Johnston, Elizabeth Lichtenstein
1764-1848
Mrs. William Martin Johnston

Kennedy, Eleanor Eliza Cripps
1825-1913

Kerr, Margaret E.
1900-1976

Kinton, Ada Florence
1859-1905

Knox, Mrs. Olive Elsie
1910-
née Robinson

Laing, Dilys Bennett
1906-1960

Laird, Elizabeth Rebecca
1874-1969

Lawson, Lucy (Stapley)
d. 1871

Lazechko-Haas, Myra
b. 1920
Maara Haas

Lefebvre, Sister Marie Denise
1907-1993

Leisner, Dorothy Roberts

Leonowens, Anna Harriette
1831-1915
née Edwards

Lewis, Ada Maria Leigh
d. 1931
Mrs. Travers Lewis

Lewthwaite, Elizabeth

Lindeburgh, Marion
1887-1955

Lloyd-Owen, Frances

Long, Marion

Lorton, Mary Woodworth
1899-1971

Lugrin, N. de Bertrand
1876-1962
Nora de Bertrand Lugrin

Lysenko, Vera
1910-1975
“Vera Lesik”

MacCallum, Elizabeth Pauline

MacDonald, Edith Myra
Mrs. Donald Walter MacDonald

MacDonald, Elizabeth Owen
1835-1901

MacDonald, Helen C.

MacDonald, Lady Agnes
1836-1920
Susan Agnes Bernard

MacGill, Helen Gregory
1864-1947
McGill; Judge Helen Gregory McGill; Mrs. James MacGill

MacInnis, Grace Winona Woodsworth
1905-1991

Mack, Elsie Frances
b. 1909
née Wilson; “Frances Sarah Moore”

MacKay, Janet Winifred

MacKenzie, Catherine Dunlop

MacKenzie, Mary Ardchronie
1869-1948
Ardcronie and Mackenzie both used

Maclure, Sara Anne (McLagan)
1856-1924
Mrs. John Campbell McLagan

MacMurchy, Helen
1862-1953

MacMurchy, Marjorie
c1869-1938
Lady Willison

MacPhail, Agnes Campbell

MacPherson, Charlotte Holt Gethings
c.1828-1892
Miss Holt; Mrs. Daniel MacPherson; Charlotte Holt Gethings

Major, Mrs. Henniker
“Homesteader”

Maltwood, Katharine Emma
1878-1961
née Sapsworth

Manning, Ella Wallace Jackson
b. 1910
Mrs. Tom Manning

Marsh, Edith Louise
d. 1960

Marshall, Joyce
1913-2005

Marshall, Rosamund
1902-1957
Mrs. Albert Earl Marshall

Marty, Aletta Elise
1866-1929

Massey, Alice Satuart Parkin
1879-1950
Mrs. Vincent Massey

Maxwell, Lilian Mary
1877-1956
née Beckwith; Dr. Lilian Maxwell (LL.D.)

McArthur, Helen Griffith
1911-1974

McCulloch, Mercy Emma
b. 1880
née Powell

McCully, Elizabeth A
1862-1941

McGregor, Enid A.

McKenzie, Alwilda Frances
1886-1964

McKinney, Louise Crummy
1868-1931

McLean, Margaret
1871-1931
M. McLean

McLeod, Margaret Lillian Arnett

McManus, Emily Julian
1865-1917

McMillan, M. Helena
1869-1970

McNaught, Eleanor Mildred
1884-1955
née Sanderson

McNaughton, Margaret
née Peebles

McNaughton, Violet Clara
née Jackson

McWilliams, Margaret May
1875-1952
née Stovel; Mrs. Roland F. McWilliams

Merritt, Catharine Nina
b. 1859
“Anin Tirem”

Mickle, Sara
1853-1930

Middleton, Margaret
1848-1935
née Agar

Millar, Ellen Maud Graham
b. 1876

Millar, Margaret Ellis Sturm
1915-1994

Milligan, Doris

Mitchell, Margaret Knox Howell
1901-1988

Montrure, Ethel Brant

Morris, Maria Frances Ann (Miller)
1813-1875

Mowat, Grace Helen

Munday, Luta

Murphy, Evelyn Gowan
1890-1968

Murray, Ellen

Murray, Frances Elizabeth
1831-1901

Murray, Rona
1924-2003

Nasmyth, Beatrice
1885-1977
later Furniss

Neatby, Hilda Marion
1904-1975

Newhall, Georgina Alexandrina
1859-1932
Mrs. Georgina Fraser Newhall

Newnham, Sophia
Miss S. Newnham

Newton, Margaret
1887-1971

Nielsen, Dorise Winnifred Weber
1902-1980

Noel, Ellen Vavasour
1835-1902
Ellen Vavasour

Northway, Mary Louise
1909-1978

Nutt, Elizabeth Styring
1870-1946

Nutting, Mary Adelaide
1858-1948

O’Hara, Margaret
1855-1940

O’Neill, Margaret
1842-1927
“Mother Agatha”

Oakeley, Hilda Diana
H. D. Oakeley

Osborn, Margot
1902-2006

Paget, Amelia Anne McLean
1867-1922

Palk, Helen
b. 1879

Pantazzi, Ethel Greening
1880-1961

Parker, Elizabeth
1856-1944

Parlby, Mary Irene Marryat
1868-1965
Irene Parlby

Parsons, Gertrude Isabella
1880-1924

Parsons, Hilma Sheppard

Parsons, Nell
1898-1968
Nell Wilson Parsons

Paterson, Ruth

Patterson, Dr. Margaret
née Norris

Patterson, Isabella
1886-1961
née Isabel Mary Bowler

Payson, Stella T.
1867-1956
Payson, Stella Tiletson

Peacock, Catharine Kirby

Pengilly, Mary Huestit
b. c1823

Perry, Lily May
1895-1992

Pharis, Gwen

Phelan, Josephine

Pimm, Ella G. (Barrett)
d. 1970

Pincock, Jennie O’Hara
1890-1948

Pomeroy, Elsie M.
b. 1886
Elsie May Pomeroy

Pope, Georgina Fane
1862-1938

Portlock, Rosa Elliott
1839-1928

Powell, Anne Murray
1755-1849

Pratt, Lenore Alexandra
née Tucker

Pratt, Viola Leone
1892-1984
née Whitney; Viola Whitney Pratt; Viola Leone Whitney

Preston, Isabella
1881-1964

Price, Bertha Maud
1872-1955
née Weston

Primrose, Olive Clare
1901-1971
Mrs. John C. Coulter

Purser, Mona Cleever
1884-1954
“The Homemaker”; Mrs. Harold M. Purser

Pyper, Nancy
b. 1890

Ramage, Laeta Marion
1898-1973
Mrs. Robert Stevenson

Ramsay, Christian
1786-1839
Lady Dalhousie, née Broun

Ravenhill, Alice
1859-1954

Read-Johnston, Blanche
b. 1866
Mrs. John Read; Mrs. N.B. Johnston; Blanche J. Read; Blanche Goodall Read Johnston

Reid, Helen Richmond Young
1870-1941

Reynolds, Ella Julia

Rijnhart, Susie Carson
1868-1908
Susanna Carson Rijnhart Moyes

Riley, Margaret Louise
Louise Riley

Ringwood, Gwen Pharis
1910-1984
Gwen Pharis

Ritchie, Mary Christine

Roberts, Joan
Lady Roberts; Mrs. Charles G.D. Roberts

Rockwell, Huldah S. McMullen
1854-1904
née McMullen

Ross, Effie May

Ross, Mary Lowrey

Rouleau, Corinne Rocheleau

Royce, Marion Victoria
1901-1987

Rusby, Evelyn Craig

Rutty, Jean Beattie
d. 1933
“Elizabeth Jane”

Sanders, Byrne Hope
1902-1981
Mrs. Frank Sperry

Sangster, Dorothy
1913-2011
Mrs. Sidney Katz

Scott, Agnes Mary
1853-1927
“Amaryllis;” “The Marchioness”; Mrs. Davis

Selfridge, Erica

Shadd, Mary Ann
1823-1893
Mary Ann Camberton Cary Shadd; née Cary

Shand, Beatrice
1888-1978

Shaw, Flora Madeline
1864-1927

Shaw, Gertude E. Reilly
G. E. R. Shaw

Sheppard, Harriet (Henrietta Campbell Sheppard)

Shipley, Nan
1902-1990
Nancy Evelyn Shipley, née Somerville

Simms, Sophia

Sliter, Dorothy Murray

Smart, Elizabeth
1913-1986

Smith, Damaris Isabella
1831-1931

Smith, Minnie

Smith, Sarah E.

Snively, Mary Agnes
1847-1933

Snow, Loretta
1872-1940

Snyder, Olive Anderson
1871-1952

Spence, Mary Ellen (Nellie)
1867-1953

Spence, Ruth Elizabeth
1890-1953

Spragge, Ellen Elizabeth
1854-1932
Elizabeth Ellen (Cameron) Spragge; Mrs. Arthur Spragge; “E.S.”

Springett, Mrs. Evelyn Cartier
née Galt

Staebler, Edna
1906-2006
Edna Louise Cress Staebler

Stewart, Frances Browne
1794-1872

Stewart, Isabel Maitland
1878-1963

Stowe-Gullen, Augusta
1857-1943

Strachan, Elizabeth S.
Mrs. E. S. Strachan

Strange, Kathleen
b. 1896
née Redman; Mrs. Robert Bridge Strange

Tamblyn, Bertha Louise

Taylor, Euphemia Jane
1874-1970

Templeton-Armstrong, Ida Augusta

Thompson, Eileen Burton

Thornhill, Mary Elizabeth
b. 1865

Thornton, Mildred Valley
1890-1967
née Stinson

Tilley, Alice Chipman
1845-1921
Mrs. Samuel Leonard Tilley; Alice Starr Chipman; Lady Tilley

Tucker, Elizabeth S.
Mrs. H. C. Tilley

Tyndall, A. C.

Tyrrell, Mrs. Edith Mary
c1870-1945
née Carey

Van der Mark, Christine
1917-1969

van der Mark, Mary

Vaux, Mary Morris
1860-1940
later Walcott

Waagen, Mary Elizabeth
Mrs. Carsten B. Waagen; née Hickson

Walker, Joan
b. 1908
née Suter; “Leonie Mason”; Mrs. James Rankin Walker

Warren, Mary Schaffer
1861-1939
Mary Townsend Schäffer; née Sharples

Werum, Florence Anne Ralston
1896-1961
Mrs. Clarence M. Werum; née Ralston

Wheeler, Hylda Kathleen

Whitton, Charlotte Elizabeth
1896-1975

Williams-Taylor, Jane Fayrer Henshaw
1869-1950
Lady Williams-Taylor

Williams, Helen Ernestine

Williams, Mabel Berta
M. B. Williams

Williamson, Lydia Frances
1860-1952
Mrs. J. B. Williamson; “Richard Scrace”

Wilson, Alice Evelyn
1881-1964

Wilson, Ethel
1888-1980

Wilson, Jean Scantlion
d. 1970

Winning-Carr, Amy Simpson
“Amy Carr”

Witter, Mary L. T.

Wood, Alexandrina Gertrude
1881-c.1982
Gertrude Wood
different from Alexandrina Woods, who wrote the children’s text Little Gray Doors

Wood, Audrey St. Denys
1915-1993
Audrey St. Denis Wood; Audrey St. Denys Johnson; Mrs. Eugene Maurice Johnson

Wrong, Margaret Christian
1887-1948

Youmans, Letitia Creighton
1827-1896