| Main entry | Taylor, Frances Beatrice |
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| Birth place | Brussels, Huron, Ontario |
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| Birth date | 15 May 1891 |
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| Death place | London, Ontario |
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| Death date | 10 June 1979 |
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| Identifier | 0382 |
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| Birth name | Frances Beatrice Taylor |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Religious affiliation | Anglican; Episcopalian |
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| Paid work | journalist |
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| Biography | Frances Beatrice Taylor (1891-1979), known as "Fanny," was born in Brussels, Ontario and educated there by her father, barrister Robert Taylor (1851-). A professional journalist, she was editor of the Women's Department of the LONDON FREE PRESS as well as a musical, literary and dramatic critic for over thirty years. After publishing her first verse in the FREE PRESS when she was only 16 or 17, she regularly contributed poetry and prose to periodicals throughout Canada and the United States. She shared with Toronto poet Herbert Ridgely first prize for the best Canadian poem in an open class from the Ottawa Arts and Letters Club in 1919 for "Pioneer of the Air," and later won first prize in the MANITOBA FREE PRESS contest in commemoration of Manitoba's founding as a province. Mary Esther MacGregor* (Marion Keith) was among her literary friends. Frances had two plays produced in London, "Masque of All Souls," and "Bayberry Candles" and published two volumes of verse, SONG OF KORTHAN (1923), and WHITE WINDS OF DAWN (1924). She died in 1979 in London, Ontario. |
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| Travel | Michigan, 1945 |
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| Honours and awards | 1st place for "The Pioneer of the Air," Best Canadian poem in an Open Class (Ottawa Arts and Letters Club, 1919); Award, Literary contest (MANITOBA FREE PRESS, 1920) |
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| Residences | Brussels, Ontario (1891-1901); London, Ontario (c1906-1979) |
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| Geographic regions | Ontario |
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| Primary genres | poetry; journalism; fiction |
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| Books | SONG OF KORTHAN (1923); WHITE WINDS OF DAWN (1924) |
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| Periodicals | ATLANTIC MONTHLY; CANADIAN BOOKMAN; CANADIAN HOME JOURNAL; CANADIAN MAGAZINE; CHATELAINE; DALHOUSIE REVIEW; FORGE, GRAPHIC; MACLEAN'S; MCCALL'S; MONTREAL POETRY YEAR BOOK (1930); NEW YORK TIMES; POETRY |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Carman and Pierce, OUR CANADIAN LITERATURE (1934); Caswell, CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS (1925); Garvin, CANADIAN POETS (1926); Roberts, FLYING COLOURS (1942); Rutledge, SELECTED SHORT STORIES (1937); Rutledge, STORIES IN MANY MOODS (1935) |
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| Organizations | Canadian Authors Association, Canadian Women's Press Club |
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| Father's name | Robert Leslie Taylor |
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| Life dates of father | 3 April 1851, Ontario - 1911-1932 |
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| Father's note | barrister |
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| Mother's name | Mary ("Molly") Chipman Smith |
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| Life dates of mother | 25 June 1854, Chicago, Illinois - 26 March 1932, London, Ontario |
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| Biographical references | WHO WAS WHO AMONG NORTH AMERICAN AUTHORS 1921-39; 1901 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada; Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1957; Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913 |
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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 | letter, Margaret Cowie fonds, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC |
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| Image credits | Image from John. W. Garvin, ed., CANADIAN POETS (2nd ed., Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1926). |
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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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