Anne Cochran Wilkinson was a Canadian poet, prose writer, editor, and historian. She published two collections of poetry, Counterpoint to Sleep (1951) and The Hangman Ties the Holly (1955), a family history entitled Lions in the Way: A Discursive History of the Oslers (1956), and the modern fairy tale for children Swann and Daphne (1960). She also wrote drama, short stories, book reviews, and a body of life-writing that is collected in The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson (1992). She became literary editor of the short-lived little magazine here and now in 1949, and helped to found The Tamarack Review, which ran from 1956-82. She died in Toronto on May 10, 1961.
Wilkinson was born in Toronto, Ontario on September 21, 1910, but spent much of her childhood in London, Ontario and the...
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Citation: Dalgleish, Melissa A. . "Anne Wilkinson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 July 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13155, accessed 09 June 2026.]
