| Main entry | Brodie, Ethel Mary |
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| Birth place | Toronto, Ontario |
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| Birth date | 27 September 1878 |
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| Death date | After 1915 |
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| Identifier | 0186 |
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| Birth name | Ethel Mary Brodie |
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| Married name | Staunton |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Biography | Daughter of the founder of the Standard Bank of Canada, Ethel Mary Brodie (1878-) published under her maiden name even after her marriage and the birth of her only child, Jessie Adeline Dick Staunton, in 1906. She attended Miss Champion's private girls' school and Morvyn House, the forerunner of Havergal Hall, until ill health forced her to study at home. Her only book, THE ROSE-COLOURED WORLD (1910), published simultaneously in Toronto and New York, is a collection of some of her short stories. A long-time resident of Toronto, Ethel supported suffragist causes. Her date and place of death remain unknown. |
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| Travel | Glasgow, Scotland, 1911; New York (via St. Albans, Vermont), 1919; Liverpool, England (via Halifax), 1919; New York (via Liverpool), 1919 |
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| Residences | Toronto, Ontario (1878, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911) |
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| Geographic regions | Ontario |
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| Primary genres | fiction |
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| Books | THE ROSE-COLOURED WORLD AND OTHER FANTASIES (1910) |
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| Periodicals | SATURDAY NIGHT |
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| Other arts | music |
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| Father's name | John Lowe Brodie |
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| Life dates of father | 15 May 1839, Coupar Angus, Scotland - 18 June 1894, Toronto, Ontario |
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| Father's note | founder of Standard Bank of Canada |
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| Mother's name | Adeline Josephine Hughes Lowe |
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| Life dates of mother | 17 August 1839, Colaba-Bombay, Maharashtra, India - 26 January 1919, Toronto, Ontario |
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| Spouse 1 | Victor Charles Staunton |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 14 August 1876, Toronto, Ontario - |
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| Spouse 1 note | paper manufacturer |
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| Marriage 1 date | 4 April 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 | Jessie Adeline ("Dick") (11 March 1906 - ) |
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| Biographical references | WOMEN'S WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA (1914-15), p. 129; 1881 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada; Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956; Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935; New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957; Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1911; Ontario, Canada Marriage, 1801-1928; UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 252 |
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| Research references | complete |
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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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