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Ethel Wilson

Died in 1980

Ethel Wilson (1888-1980), born Ethel Bryant in Port Elizabeth, in the Cape Colony, the daughter of a Wesleyan minister, lost her mother at the age of two, followed her father to England and was orphaned at ten: a Methodist grandmother took her in at Vancouver. A schoolteacher until 1920, married in 1921 to a prominent doctor of the city, she published her first novel only at the age of fifty-nine. She is counted among the first writers to have portrayed British Columbia; she encouraged Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro at the start of their careers. She died in Vancouver.

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