| Main entry | Angus, Marion Isabel Hand |
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| Birth place | Ottawa, Ontario |
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| Birth date | 14 January 1901 |
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| Death place | Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Death date | 4 March 1951 |
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| Identifier | 0145 |
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| Birth name | Marion Isabel Hand |
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| Married name | Angus |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Degree and date | teacher's certificate, Provincial Normal School, Vancouver |
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| Paid work | journalist; free-lance advertising writer |
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| Biography | Born in Ottawa, Marion Isabel Hand (1901-1951) came as a child to Vancouver where she attended Fairview Public School, Britannia High School and the Provincial Normal School where she qualified to teach. However, her main career was in advertising and journalism, working as a freelance writer. When she married businessman John Rettie Angus, she moved to Victoria where she composed most of the poems that appeared in her two published volumes. By the mid-1930s she was back in Vancouver, taking an active part in the Vancouver Poetry Society and the local branch of the Canadian Authors Association. She was a versatile writer, contributing poetry, articles, book reviews and juvenile stories to periodicals in Canada, England, Ireland, and the United States. She also published a volume of non-fiction prose, WOMAN UNVEILED, which argues against advances being made by women. Marion died in Vancouver in 1951. |
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| Other notes | Siblings: Douglas Hand (1903-1983), m. Catherine Elizabeth Findlay; Helen Hand (1905-); Gordon Hand (1907). |
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| Honours and awards | 2nd Honourable Mention for "Dollars and Daggers," Canadian Women's Press Club Memorial Award (1943) |
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| Residences | Ottawa, Ontario (1901); Vancouver, British Columbia (1911); Victoria, British Columbia; Vancouver (1951) |
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| Geographic regions | British Columbia |
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| Primary genres | poetry; non-fiction |
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| Books | SEA MIST AND OTHER POEMS (1926); FRAGRANT WISDOM (1931); WOMAN UNVEILED (1932) |
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| Periodicals | ALL-STORY; ARGOSY (UK); AMERICAN HEBREW; FAMILY HERALD; MAIL AND EMPIRE; WHITE STAR MAGAZINE; WILLISON'S MONTHLY |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Crawley, VICTORIA POETRY CHAPBOOK (1936) |
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| Organizations | Canadian Authors Association, Vancouver Poetry Society |
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| Father's name | Joseph Wesley Hand |
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| Life dates of father | 22 July 1877, Shelburne, Ontario - 26 June 1909, Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Father's note | grocer |
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| Mother's name | Annie Scott Campbell |
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| Life dates of mother | 8 May 1879, Ireland - ; m. 1899 |
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| Spouse 1 | John Rettie Angus |
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| Spouse 1 note | businessman |
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| Marriage 1 date | 7 June 1922 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Biographical references | WHO WAS WHO AMONG NORTH AMERICAN AUTHORS 1921-1939; Dagg, THE FEMININE GAZE (2001), p. 27; Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1911; 1901 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada; British Columbia Marriage Index: 1872 to 1924; British Columbia Death Index: 1872 to 1979 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 8, 601 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | several letters, W.A. Deacon papers, Fisher Library, University of Toronto |
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| Image credits | Image is in the public domain; courtesy of the City of Vancouver Archives (CVA 1184-828). |
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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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