Ethelwyn wetherald biography sample
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AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD (1857-1940)
by Kemisha Newman
Though little remembered today, Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald was for many years an active member of the Canadian literary community in the post-confederation period.
She was born to English-Quaker parents in Rockwood, Ontario, where her father, William Wetherald, was the founder and principal of Rockwood Academy.
Ethelwyn wetherald biography sample
He subsequently became superintendent of Haverford College, near Philadelphia. After becoming a Quaker minister, he moved the family back to Ontario, to a fruit and dairy farm on the Niagara peninsula. William was careful to nurture his daughter’s talent as a writer by imparting to her his own love of the English language and its literature.
Additionally, her writing was profoundly influenced by the pastoral environments in which she spent her childhood.
Wetherald published her first poem when she was seventeen in St. Nicholas Magazine , and in the 1880s began to contribute essays and sketches to the Toronto Globe