| Main entry | Addison, Eleanor C. |
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| Birth place | near Defiance, Ohio, USA |
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| Birth date | 17 March 1875 |
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| Death place | Mount Vernon, Westchester, New York, USA |
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| Death date | December 1948 |
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| Identifier | 0140 |
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| Birth name | Eleanor Corkhill Adams |
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| Married name | Addison |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Anglican |
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| Other work | doctor's wife |
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| Biography | The daughter and wife of medical doctors, Eleanor Corkhill Addison (1875-1948) attended Bishop Strachan School in Toronto. After her 1905 marriage to Dr. H. F. Addison (1880-1963) she moved to Philadelphia where her husband was a professor of embryology and histology at the University of Pennsylvania. Together, the couple had one daughter and travelled frequently to Europe, often via Canadian ports. During her last two decades, Eleanor issued four volumes of poetry with London and American publishers. Until recently, her war-era journals—in the University of Pennsylvania archives—had only received attention on account of the author's connection to her husband; currently, scholars are assessing these documents as part of her own body of work. Eleanor died at the home of her daughter in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1948. |
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| Travel | Belgium, 1912; England, 1923; Belgium, 1926; Marseille, 1938 |
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| Other notes | Eleanor's Canadian census, marriage, and travel records show that she was born in Ohio, while other (American) census records report that she was born in Canada.
Siblings: Jane N. G. Adams (c1872-1898), m. Charles William Jefferys (1869-1951), a well-known Canadian artist--Jane was also an amateur artist, whom Charles met at the Toronto Art Students' League, and is always recorded as "Jean" in Jefferys' files; she died in childbirth while living in New Jersey with her young family; Caroline F. Adams (1889-) |
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| Residences | Ohio (1875); Toronto, Ontario (1891, 1901, 1905); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1910, 1930) |
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| Geographic regions | USA |
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| Primary genres | poetry |
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| Books | NONAMERSETT, AND OTHER VERSES (1928); SONNETS FROM A MASQUE OF LOVE (1931); THE HAPPY CHILD (1938); NAUSHON, AND OTHER POEMS (1940) |
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| Father's name | Dr. Edward T. Adams |
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| Life dates of father | 10 January 1845, Ontario - after 1911 |
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| Father's note | medical doctor |
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| Mother's name | Jeanette F. Lamb |
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| Life dates of mother | 23 December 1850, Louisiana - after 1911 |
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| Spouse 1 | Dr. William Henry Fitzgerald ("Gerald") Addison |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 22 April 1880, Whitby, Ontario - 1963 |
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| Spouse 1 note | university professor (Histology and Embryology), University of Pennsylvania; specialist in brain and spinal cord; served in WWI and WWII |
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| Marriage 1 date | 25 December 1905 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Toronto, Ontario |
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| Children number | 1 |
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| Children's names and dates | Agnes Eleanor K (25 December 1907 - July 1976), m. to John Gilchrist |
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| Biographical references | 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; 1910 United States Federal Census; Boston Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1943; Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924; Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928; Canada Passenger Lists, 1865-1935; 1930 United States Federal Census; New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 |
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| Bibliographic references | National Union Catalogue; British Library |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | Eleanor Corkhill Adams Addison Diary, 1939-1944, in University of Pennsylvania University Archives and Records Center |
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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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