| Main entry | Wilkins, Harriett Annie |
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| Birth place | Bath, Somerset, England |
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| Birth date | 1829 |
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| Death place | Hamilton, Ontario |
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| Death date | 7 January 1888 |
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| Identifier | 0098 |
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| Birth name | Harriett Annie Wilkins |
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| Alternate names | Harriett Annie; Harriette |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Religious affiliation | Anglican |
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| Paid work | teacher (school); teacher (music) |
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| Other work | volunteer |
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| Biography | Born in Bath, Harriett (or Harriet) Annie Wilkins (1829-1888) emigrated to Hamilton with her family around 1846. Her father's death shortly thereafter, combined with the ill health of her mother, left her in charge of her younger siblings. With one of her sisters Harriett conducted a seminary, carrying on alone after that sister left to get married. Harriett also taught music, first at the school and later from her home. On top of these other duties, she was also well known for her ministrations to the sick, the poor, and the imprisoned. A regular contributor to the "Poet's Corner" of the HAMILTON SPECTATOR AND JOURNAL OF COMMERCE, she published four of her volumes of verse at the SPECTATOR office. |
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| Residences | Bath, England (1829-1846); Hamilton, Ontario (1846-1888) |
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| Geographic regions | Ontario |
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| Primary genres | poetry |
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| Books | ROSE BUDS: OR, CONSTANTIA AND OTHER POEMS (1849); THE HOLLY BRANCH (1851); THE ACACIA (1863); AUTUMN LEAVES (1869); WAYSIDE FLOWERS (1876); VICTOR ROY: A MASONIC POEM (1882) |
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| Periodicals | CANADIAN ILLUSTRATED NEWS; HAMILTON SPECTATOR AND JOURNAL OF COMMERCE |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Dewart, SELECTIONS FROM CANADIAN POETS (1864); Harrison, CANADIAN BIRTHDAY BOOK (1887) |
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| Father's name | Reverend John Wilkins |
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| Life dates of father | England - c1847, Hamilton, Ontario; m. 1823 |
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| Father's note | clergyman, Congregationalist; Mason; died a year or so after coming to Hamilton, Ontario |
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| Mother's name | Harriet Sockett Francis |
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| Life dates of mother | Ludlow, Shropshire, England - ; m. 1823 |
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| Mother's note | daughter of classical scholar, Rev. Dr. David Francis |
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| Biographical references | Greenfield, "Wilkins, Harriett (Harriet) Annie," DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY XI, University of Toronto/Université Laval (Web, 2000); Dictionary of Hamilton Biography, vol. 1; 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; 1871 Census of Canada; 1881 Census of Canada |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 211 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | scrapbooks in the Hamilton Public Library |
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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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