Anne Wilkinson

Melissa A. Dalgleish (Independent Scholar - North America)

Ed. by Karis Shearer, University of British Columbia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 21 Sep 1910
Died 10 May 1961
Activity 1924-1961

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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Autobiographer
Poet

Other

Editor
Historian / Chronicler
Letter-writer/ Diarist

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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

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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 22 November 2024.]

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