| Main entry | Boggs, Helen |
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| Identifier | 0177 |
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| Birth name | Helen Boggs |
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| Alternate names | Nell Gwynne; Bernard |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Biography | Little is known of Helen Boggs other than her authorship of two books, issued under different pseudonyms. As "Nell Gwynne" she published ACORN LEAVES: A SERIES OF CANADIAN TALES (1873) and as "Bernard" she published a novel, WHEN THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY: A STORY OF CANADIAN SOCIETY (1891). All but one of the stories in ACORN LEAVES had been published previously. She also wrote historical sketches for the COBOURG SENTINEL. |
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| Other notes | A "Helen R. Boggs" was born in Burlington, Ontario in 1857 and married manufacturer William Malcolm in 1882 in Hamilton, where they continued to live and raise four children, at least until 1911; whether this is the same Helen Boggs is not clear. |
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| Residences | Cobourg, Ontario |
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| Geographic regions | Eastern Ontario |
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| Primary genres | fiction |
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| Books | ACORN LEAVES: A SERIES OF CANADIAN TALES (1873); WHEN THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY: A STORY OF CANADIAN SOCIETY (1891) |
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| Periodicals | COBOURG SENTINEL |
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| Spouse 1 note | furniture manufacturer |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 250 |
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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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