| Main entry | Jenkins, Mariel |
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| Birth place | New Forestville, Delaware, Sanilac, Michigan, USA |
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| Birth date | 31 May 1891 |
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| Death place | King City, Ontario |
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| Death date | 1984 |
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| Identifier | 0103 |
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| Birth name | Mary Lizetta Jenkins |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Paid work | teacher (school) |
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| Biography | As the great-granddaughter of Reverend William Jenkins (1779-1843), Mary Lizetta Jenkins, better known as "Mariel" Jenkins (1891-1984), was well acquainted with radical religious and political stances. It is through her biographical essay, "Grace seasoned with salt: a profile of Reverend William Jenkins, 1779–1843," that scholars have access to correspondence belonging to Richmond Hill's first clergyman—a man whose friendship with William Lyon Mackenzie and membership in the "Friends of Religious Liberty" committee led to numerous personal and physical attacks by members of the Family Compact. (Jenkins had argued for secularization of political posts). Mariel's grandfather, James Mairs Jenkins, escaped to the US after being charged for his involvement in the 1837 Rebellion. By the time Mariel was born in New Forestville, Michigan, family affairs appear to have settled down. She was educated in Toronto at Humberside Collegiate and the Toronto Normal School. As an adult, she managed the home of her father, retired businessman David Oscar Jenkins (1856-1946), and taught school in Toronto. She wrote children's stories which appeared in the juvenile magazines published by the Red Cross and some of her tales were popular enough to warrant translation. Her poetic output includes two chapbooks and occasional verses in magazines. Mariel died in King City, Ontario in 1984, and was buried at King City Cemetery. |
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| Travel | Scotland, 1933 |
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| Other notes | Was also of Loyalist and Welsh descent. |
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| Honours and awards | Various prizes for poetry |
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| Residences | New Forestville, Michigan (1891); King, York, Ontario (1901); Toronto, Ontario (1933, 1940); King City, Ontario (1984) |
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| Geographic regions | Ontario |
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| Primary genres | poetry |
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| Books | LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN (1937); BEAUTY FOR ASHES (1943) |
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| Periodicals | CANADIAN BOOKMAN; ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS AND RECORDS; RED CROSS JUNIOR MAGAZINE |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Creighton and Ridley, NEW CANADIAN ANTHOLOGY (1938) |
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| Organizations | Ontario Historical Society |
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| Father's name | David Oscar Jenkins |
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| Life dates of father | November 1856, Richmond Hill, Ontario - 13 May 1946, Toronto, Ontario; m. 1890, 1904 to McCallum |
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| Father's note | miller; second wife Mary McCallum |
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| Mother's name | Byrd Estella Swayze |
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| Life dates of mother | 23 June 1863, Windham, Ontario - 8 December 1894, Chicago, Illinois; m. 1890 |
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| Mother's note | Buried in Forestville, Michigan |
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| Biographical references | 1901 Census of Canada; Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935; Michigan, Births and Christenings Index, 1867-1911 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 98 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | two letters to A.S. Bourinot, 1953, Bourinot Papers, National Library of Canada; Mary Lizette Jenkins Papers, Presbyterian Church in Canada Archives |
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| Image credits | Image from Alan Creighton and Hilda M. Ridley, eds., A NEW CANADIAN ANTHOLOGY (Toronto: Crucible, 1938). |
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| Unverified titles | CHRISTMAS 1956 |
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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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