| Main entry | Taylor, Gertrude Bartlett |
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| Birth place | Newhaven, New York, USA |
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| Birth date | 11 April 1868 |
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| Death place | Montreal, Quebec |
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| Death date | 27 September 1942 |
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| Identifier | 0383 |
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| Birth name | Gertrude Emilie Bartlett |
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| Married name | Taylor |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Presbyterian; Anglican |
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| Paid work | secretary |
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| Biography | Born and educated in New York state, Gertrude Emilie Bartlett (1868-1942) emigrated to Toronto in 1885 where she secured employement at MacDonald and Marsh, the law firm where Sir John A. MacDonald was senior partner. In 1891 she married John Taylor, an artist who became the president of the Montreal Lithographic Company; they had one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. Though Gertrude began writing when she was eighteen, and frequently contributed poetry to various periodicals, her single published work came out relatively late in her life—THE WHITE BIRD AND OTHER POEMS was published in 1932, under the name of Gertrude Bartlett, with an introduction by Robert Norwood. The title poem won the Prix David (section anglaise) poetry prize of $600. She subsequently became a regular contributor of stories and poems to the MONTREAL GAZETTE. Active in the Canadian Author's Association, she regularly appeared in the CAA Yearbooks, and included Katherine Hale (Amelia Beers Warnock*) among her friends. |
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| Travel | one year in England (between 1891-1916) |
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| Honours and awards | Award for "The White Bird," Section anglaise, Prix David ($600) (1932); Award for "The Bride," Sonnet Competition ($25), Montreal Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1934) |
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| Residences | New York; Toronto, Ontario (1885-1891); Montreal, Quebec (1901); Outremont, Quebec (-1942) |
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| Geographic regions | Quebec |
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| Primary genres | poetry |
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| Books | THE WHITE BIRD AND OTHER POEMS (1932) |
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| Periodicals | AINSLEY'S MAGAZINE; ATLANTIC MONTHLY; BOSTON TRANSCRIPT; CANADIAN MAGAZINE; CHICAGO TRIBUNE; MONTREAL DAILY STAR; MONTREAL GAZETTE; MONTREAL POETRY YEAR BOOK (1934, 1937); METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE; SATURDAY NIGHT; WINDSOR MAGAZINE |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Garvin, CANADIAN POEMS OF THE GREAT WAR (1918); Garvin, CANADIAN POETS (1916) |
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| Organizations | Canadian Authors Association, League of American Pen Women |
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| Father's name | William Cheever Bartlett |
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| Life dates of father | c1836, New Haven, New York - c1915, New York |
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| Father's note | farmer; Civil War veteran; descendant of George Bartlett, a founder of Guildford, Connecticut |
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| Mother's name | Mary Moulton |
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| Life dates of mother | c1847, New York - after 1915 |
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| Spouse 1 | John Walter Cuttle Taylor |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 22 January 1868, Huddersfield, York, England - after 1901 |
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| Spouse 1 note | artist; became president, Montreal Lithographic Company |
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| Marriage 1 date | 5 March 1891 |
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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 | Mary Elizabeth (c1906-), m. to David Nicholson |
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| Biographical references | Canadian Newspaper Service, NATIONAL REFERENCE BOOK (1940); CANADIAN WHO'S WHO (1936-37); Garvin, ed., CANADIAN POETS (1916), pp. 395-98; 1880 United States Federal Census; 1901 Census of Canada; Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 195 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | two letters, 1924, to J.D. Logan, Logan Papers, Acadia University Archives; nineteen letters, 1931-32, Macmillan Papers, McMaster. |
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| Image credits | Image from John. W. Garvin, ed., CANADIAN POETS (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1916). |
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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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