Margaret Ethelind Sawtell, a military wife from the island of Guernsey, published her poetry in Montreal in 1840 to raise funds when she found herself suddenly widowed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...