Author Biographies in CEWW

Maritimer Margaret Gill Currie published poetry that honoured the United Empire Loyalists.

A founding member of the Canadian Women's Press Club, Margaret Graham became a career journalist after first training as a teacher.

After her early death, Margaret Laing's parents published her poems in a posthumous volume.

Margaret MacLean developed a career as the first public educator at the Royal Ontario Museum and published many articles about the Museum's holdings.

After achieving instant fame with her best-selling novel, Beautiful Joe (1893), Marshall Saunders enjoyed a lifetime career of writing fiction that promoted animal welfare.

Born and raised in Kitchener, ON, followed by a move to California, Margaret Millar enjoyed a long career as a successful author of mystery novels.

Outspoken and energetic, Margaret Murray enjoyed a colourful career in journalism in rural British Columbia, where she became known as "Ma Murray."

Born in Scotland, Margaret Murray Robertson came to Canada as a child and published fourteen novels that advocated active Christian values.

A highly recognized agricultural researcher, Margaret Newton published many scientific papers relating to her specialization in plant rusts.

Margaret Pauline Anderson spent her life in Saint John, NB, where she wrote poetry and fiction.

Scottish-born Margaret Sharp Peace was living in Newfoundland in 1850, when she published her only book of poems.

Margaret Elizabeth Tennant, of Lanark Township, ON, wrote one book, The Golden Chord: A Story of Trial and Conquest (1899).

Margaret Rody worked as a telephone operator in Kamsack, SK, where she published her poems in the Kamsack Times before reissuing them in several editions.

Based in southern Ontario, Margaret Samantha Wade published one volume of verse as well as a range of non-fiction whose subjects included ornithology and a company history.

Margerie Bonner Lowry, the second wife of writer Malcolm Lowry, published three mystery novels in the 1940s.

Maria Amelia Fitch spent most of her adult life in Saint John, NB, where she published two novels.

Based in Victoria, BC, Maria Heathfield Grant was active in first-wave feminism and edited the suffrage periodical, The Champion, from 1912 to 1914.

Known for her travel writing, Maria Lauder incorporated her Methodist, reformist outlook into many of her publications.

Maria Monk achieved notoriety as the supposed author of two accounts of imprisonment and abuse in a Montreal convent. Her authorship has been disputed, although her Canadian identity is not.

Best known for her paintings of the wild flowers of Nova Scotia, Maria Morris was also a published poet.

Montreal-born poet Marian Francis Osborne enjoyed a busy life on both sides of the Atlantic.

A feisty labour and suffrage activitist, Marie Joussaye expressed her views in extensive journalism and several volumes of poetry.

After training as a teacher, Marie McPhedran published stories and books for young readers.

A schoolteacher in Toronto, Mariel Jenkins wrote magazine stories for children and issued several volumes of poetry.

The sister of writer Eloise Street, Marion Anning was a published poet.

Marion Elizabeth Moodie was a professional nurse and health administrator who also wrote poetry.

Marion Isabel Angus worked in advertising and journalism in Vancouver and Victoria. Her poetry and prose appeared in three books and in numerous periodicals in Canada and abroad.

A professional actress as well as a journalist, Montreal-born Marjorie Douglas Weir also published some poetry.

While working for the Department of External Affairs, Ontario-born Marjorie McKenzie contributed poetry to periodicals and issued one volume of verse, Graphite and Galena, in 1927.

The ethereal poems of Marjorie Pickthall were embraced by those who resisted modernism.

Marjorie Reynolds Pound published one story, under the name of "Bunny Pound," when she was eleven years old.

After a childhood in rural Saskatchewan, Marjorie Wilkins Campbell settled in Toronto where her initial career in journalism led to an award-winning series of non-fiction historical narratives...

A busy participant in the Canadian literary community, Toronto-based author Marjory MacMurchy was well-known for her journalism and fiction.