| Main entry | Leveridge, Lilian |
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| Birth place | Hockering, Norfolk, England |
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| Birth date | 15 April 1879 |
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| Death place | Carrying Place, Ontario |
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| Death date | 24 November 1953 |
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| Identifier | 0126 |
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| Birth name | Lilian Leveridge |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Religious affiliation | Anglican |
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| Paid work | teacher (school); office work; journalism |
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| Biography | With her five older siblings and mother, Lilian Leveridge (1879-1953) arrived in Canada in 1883, following a farmer father who left Ireland the previous year to start afresh after being scammed by a friend who had defaulted on a loan. The family settled in a one-room shanty on a 100-acre plot, just north of Coe Hill, in Wollaston, Township. The setting of these early years in Canada is described in YOUR LOVING ANNA, a collection of letters written by Lilian's mother and published by a Leveridge descendant in 1972. After living in Carrying Place for several years, and later graduating from Winnipeg Normal School, Lilian taught for seven years in Manitoba and Ontario before switching to office work. In 1945 she captured two prizes in the McNab Poetry Award. Ill health forced her to stop working and she retired to Carrying Place, supporting herself by writing short stories, articles and poems for periodicals, as well as issuing six volumes of verse. |
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| Other notes | Both parents are buried at Carrying Place, Ontario. Margaret Marshall Saunders* used a poem by Lilian Leveridge as an epigraph to BONNIE PRINCE FETLAR. |
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| Honours and awards | Award for unknown poem, Short Story Competition ($15), Canadian Literature Club of Toronto (Archie McKishnie, 193-); Honourable Mention for “The Whitethroat,” Bird Poem Competition, Montreal Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1937); 2nd place for "Glamoresque," McNab Poetry Award (1945); 4th place for "Open Gate," McNab Poetry Award (1945) |
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| Residences | Hockering, Norfolk, England (1879-1883); Coe Hill, Woolaston, Hastings, Ontario (1883-1914); Carrying Place, Prince Edward County, Ontario (1914-); Winnipeg, Manitoba; Toronto, Ontario; Carrying Place (-1953) |
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| Geographic regions | Ontario |
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| Primary genres | poetry; fiction; journalism; non-fiction |
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| Books | OVER THE HILLS OF HOME, AND OTHER POEMS (1918); A BREATH OF THE WOODS (1926); THE HERO SONGS OF CANADA (1927); THE BLOSSOM TRAIL (1932); STILL WATERS (1933); LYRICS AND SONNETS (1939) |
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| Periodicals | ALBERTA POETRY YEAR BOOK; CANADIAN BOOKMAN; CANADIAN FARMER; CANADIAN HOME JOURNAL; CANADIAN MAGAZINE; CHRISTIAN GUARDIAN; DELINEATOR; FAMILY HERALD AND WEEKLY STAR; MAIL AND EMPIRE; MONTREAL POETRY YEAR BOOK (1937); NEW OUTLOOK; OCCULT DIGEST; ONTARIO FARMER; ONTARIO INTELLIGENCER; PICTON GAZETTE |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Carman and Pierce, OUR CANADIAN LITERATURE (1934); Caswell, CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS (1919, 1925); French, STANDARD CANADIAN RECITER (1918); Garvin, CANADIAN POEMS OF THE GREAT WAR (1918); Toronto Women's Press Club, VERSE AND REVERSE (1921, 1922) |
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| Organizations | Canadian Authors Association, Canadian Women's Press Club, Canadian Literature Club |
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| Father's name | David William Leveridge |
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| Life dates of father | 4 March 1840, Yaxham, Nofolk, England - 4 January 1929, Murray Towship, Northumberland, Ontario |
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| Father's note | farm overseer (Norwich, England); farmer |
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| Mother's name | Anna Maria Godbolt |
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| Life dates of mother | 9 November 1846, Harleston, Norfolk, England - 8 February 1927, Carrying Place, Ontario |
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| Mother's note | Co-author of YOUR LOVING ANNA: LETTERS FROM THE ONTARIO FRONTIER (1972), a collection edited and supplemented by her grandson, Louis Tivy, about life in Coe Hill, Ontario |
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| Biographical references | Leveridge, Anna, YOUR LOVING ANNA: LETTERS FROM THE ONTARIO FRONTIER (1972), ed. Louis Tivy; 1881 England Census; 1891 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada; Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935; England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 113-4; National Union Catalogue |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | letters to Blanche Hume, Blanche Hume Papers, Mount Allison University; letter, Charles Gordonsmith Papers, National Archives of Quebec (Montreal); letter to Anne Merrill, Manuscript Collections, University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources; letters and photographs, Anna Leveridge fonds, Trent University Archives; correspondence, poetry, and reviews, Lorne and Edith Pierce collection, Queen's University Archives; poem, Newton McTavish papers, North York Public Library |
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| Image credits | Image from Edward S. Caswell, ed., CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS: A COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS, AUTOGRAPH POEMS AND BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES 3rd ed. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1925). |
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