| Main entry | Woodley, Elsie |
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| Birth place | Danville, Richmond, Quebec |
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| Birth date | 17 June 1909 |
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| Death place | Toronto, Ontario |
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| Death date | 12 August 1999 |
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| Identifier | 0042 |
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| Birth name | Elsie Caroline Woodley |
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| Married name | Hodson |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | United Church of Canada |
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| Degree and date | MA, McGill (1932) |
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| Other work | teacher (school) |
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| Biography | Edward Carruthers Woodley (1878-1947), father of Elsie Caroline Woodley (1909-1999), was a teacher, a United Church minister, and an education administrator in the Province of Quebec. He had been a missionary in India before Elsie's birth, and wrote a history of the Bible in Canada, among other literary works. Elsie's life followed a similar course: she wrote her Master's thesis at McGill in 1932 on the history of education in Quebec and in 1947 produced an anthology, WITH ONE VOICE, subtitled "Messages from the Bible and Literature." BITTERSWEET (1930), her eight-page Ryerson chapbook of poetry, bears evidence of its author's classical education. Its major theme, as implied by the title, is reconciliation, particularly in a Christian context. In her mid-twenties, Elsie worked as a schoolteacher in Quebec City, where she married George Hyde Hodson (1912-1960) in 1935. Together, the couple had six children. Elsie seems to have lived for some time in Toronto, where she died in 1999. |
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| Travel | England, 1919 |
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| Residences | Danville, Richmond, Quebec (1909-1911); Montreal, Quebec (c1919); Quebec City, Quebec (c1935); Toronto, Ontario (-1999) |
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| Geographic regions | Quebec |
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| Primary genres | poetry |
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| Books | BITTERSWEET (1930); MY COUNTRY'S STORY (2 vols.) (1941) with Donalda James Dickie and Helen Palk; ed., WITH ONE VOICE (1947) |
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| Father's name | Edward Carruthers Woodley |
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| Life dates of father | 2 August 1878, Montreal, Quebec - 12 February 1955, Montreal, Quebec; m. 1902 |
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| Father's note | Special (Research) Officer, Department of Education, Quebec (1930-45); engaged in educational work in India and Near East; teacher; clergyman, Congregationalist, later United; author and compiler of several history books and text books, especially on French Canadian legends |
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| Mother's name | Edythe Annie Garlick |
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| Life dates of mother | 28 February 1880, Montreal, Quebec - 6 February 1968; m. 1902 |
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| Mother's note | earned first rank standings in Greek and Latin at McGill University, where acted as President of YWCA; teacher |
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| Spouse 1 | George Hyde Hodson |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 26 July 1912, London, England - 26 December 1960, Montreal, Quebec |
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| Spouse 1 note | clerk with B(...?) Service Corporation of Canada, Ltd. |
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| Marriage 1 date | 2 September 1935 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Presbyterian Chalmer's Church, Quebec City, Quebec |
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| Children number | 6 |
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| Children's names and dates | Carol (), m. Melvin Leo Oyer;
Harry ();
Irene Grace (), m. Baechler;
Rosemary (), m. Merrall;
Jane (), m. Rossignol;
Michael () |
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| Biographical references | 1911 Census of Canada; Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1954; Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935; Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967; Toronto Star Obituaries, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1999 - April 2000, February 2001 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 214, 857 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Image credits | Line drawing by Una Vernelli (Vancouver, British Columbia). |
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| Copyright | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Please cite Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 1980-2014. |
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