Ethel Wilson (1888–1980)
Auteur de Swamp Angel
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Œuvres de Ethel Wilson
Ethel Wilson : Stories, Essays, & Letters 1 exemplaire
Mr. Sleepwalker — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Cavalcade of the North: An Entertaining Collection of Distinguished Writing by Canadian Authors (1958) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (1999) — Auteur, quelques éditions — 29 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Bryant, Ethel
Wilson, Ethel Davis - Date de naissance
- 1888-01-20
- Date de décès
- 1980-12-22
- Lieu de sépulture
- British Columbia, Canada
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- Lieu du décès
- British Columbia, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
England, UK - Études
- Trinity Hall School, Lancashire
Vancouver Normal School - Professions
- novelist
short story writer
essayist - Prix et distinctions
- Lorne Pierce Medal (1964)
Order of Canada (Officer, 1970) - Courte biographie
- 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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- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 474
- Popularité
- #52,001
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 16
- ISBN
- 30
- Favoris
- 1