Ethel Wilson (1888–1980)
Autor(a) de Swamp Angel
About the Author
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Obras por Ethel Wilson
Ethel Wilson : Stories, Essays, & Letters 1 exemplar
Mr. Sleepwalker — Autor — 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Cavalcade of the North: An Entertaining Collection of Distinguished Writing by Canadian Authors (1958) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (1999) — Autor, algumas edições — 30 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Bryant, Ethel
Wilson, Ethel Davis - Data de nascimento
- 1888-01-20
- Data de falecimento
- 1980-12-22
- Localização do túmulo
- British Columbia, Canada
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Local de nascimento
- Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- Local de falecimento
- British Columbia, Canada
- Locais de residência
- Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
England, UK - Educação
- Trinity Hall School, Lancashire
Vancouver Normal School - Ocupações
- novelist
short story writer
essayist - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Lorne Pierce Medal (1964)
Order of Canada (Officer, 1970)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Ethel Wilson, née Bryant, was born in Port Elizabeth, in the British Cape Colony, present-day South Africa. In 1890, following the death of her mother, she moved with her father to England. In 1898, after her father died, Ethel went to live with her maternal grandmother and several aunts in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was educated at private schools in Vancouver and England. In 1907, she gradated from the Vancouver Normal School and then taught for 13 years in city elementary schools. In 1921 she married Dr. Wallace Wilson, a professor of medical ethics at the University of British Columbia and president of the Canadian Medical Association.
In the 1930s, she published a few short stories in British magazines but then stopped until after World War II. Her debut novel, Hetty Dorval, appeared in 1947, and was quickly followed by a semi-fictional family memoir, The Innocent Traveller (1949). The novel Swamp Angel (1954) is generally considered to be her finest work.
Wilson is known as one of the first Canadian writers to truly capture the beauty of British Columbia's rugged landscape. Her small but impressive literary output earned her an important place in Canadian literature. In 1964, Wilson received the Lorne Pierce Medal from the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1970 the Order of Canada.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Also by
- 12
- Membros
- 479
- Popularidade
- #51,492
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 16
- ISBN
- 30
- Marcado como favorito
- 1