| Main entry | Anderson, Margaret Pauline |
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| Birth place | St. John, New Brunswick |
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| Birth date | 12 December 1866 |
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| Death place | St. John, New Brunswick |
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| Death date | 30 May 1931 |
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| Identifier | 0144 |
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| Birth name | Margaret Pauline Anderson |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Religious affiliation | Free Church; Congregationalist |
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| Biography | An invalid from late adolescence onwards, Margaret Pauline Anderson (1866-1931) recorded her thoughts in verse and prose in her volume, SICKROOM THOUGHTS AND GLEANINGS (1892). As a child she attended local schools in St. John, New Brunswick, but when spinal trouble confined her to bed, private tutors assisted her higher education. Insofar as she could participate, she supported temperance and philanthropic reform in her community. In addition to her novel, LEONA CLINCH; OR, LORD KERNDALE'S REPENTANCE (1907), she wrote short stories and issued several undated pamphlets. Margaret died in 1931, at the age of sixty-four. |
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| Other notes | Siblings: John James Anderson (1865-), was deaf and mute; Renwick Joseph Anderson (1872-1944), m. Laura Mabel Laskey, and was a C.P.R. elevator employee; Isabella L. Anderson (1873-), m. William McDonald; Catherine ("Katie") J. Anderson (1875-1943), m. George J. Dunham who was a private coachman; Alberta Anderson (1877-1964), m. Gordon Chesterfield Metcalf, and was a nurse. |
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| Residences | St. John, New Brunswick (1871, 1891, 1901, 1911) |
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| Geographic regions | New Brunswick |
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| Primary genres | fiction; non-fiction; poetry |
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| Books | SICKROOM THOUGHTS AND GLEANINGS (1892); LEONA CLINCH: OR, LORD KENDALE'S REPENTANCE (1907); THE SONGS OF THE ANGELS (nd); EASTER CHIMES (nd); THE MESSAGE OF THE BELLS (nd). |
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| Father's name | Renwick Melbourne Anderson |
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| Life dates of father | 2 November 1836, Glasgow, Scotland - 1 July 1912, St. John, New Brunswick |
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| Father's note | labourer |
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| Mother's name | M. Jane Hanley |
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| Life dates of mother | 21 May 1849, St. John, New Brunswick - 24 December 1916, St. John, New Brunswick |
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| Biographical references | WOMAN'S WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA (1914-15); 1871 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 238, 601; WOMAN'S WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA, 1914-15, p. 49. |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Image credits | Image from Margaret Pauline Anderson, Sickroom Thoughts and Gleanings (Saint John, NB: Armstrong, 1897), frontispiece. |
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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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