| Main entry | Atkin, G. Murray |
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| Birth place | Montreal, Quebec |
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| Birth date | 6 January 1881 |
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| Death place | Montreal, Quebec |
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| Death date | 16 November 1966 |
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| Identifier | 0020 |
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| Birth name | Grace Emily Murray Atkin |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Religious affiliation | Anglican |
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| Paid work | retail salesperson |
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| Biography | A lifelong resident of Montreal, Grace Emily Murray Atkin (1881-1966) used the rugged scenery of Quebec as an appropriate setting for the psychological terrain she explored in her novels. For a time her writing took a commercial turn while she worked as a copy writer for the fashion firm of Frederick's of Montreal. Her writing falls into two distinct phases, the first flourishing in four titles issued between 1919 and 1923, followed by a last book in 1954. She also published a play, "Our Lady of the Moon: A Phantasy," in the CANADIAN MAGAZINE in December 1920. Atkin's extensive travels were likely facilitated by her family's financial security. While her mother seems to have died in childbirth, her father John remarried and flourished as sole owner of Atkin's Brewery in Montreal. |
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| Travel | England, 1906, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1922, 1925, 1930, 1934, 1935, 1937; Italy, 1926; France, 1926 |
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| Residences | Ste. Anne Ward, Montreal, Quebec (1881); St. Antoine Ward, Montreal, Quebec (1891); Toronto, Ontario (1901); |
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| Geographic regions | Quebec |
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| Primary genres | fiction; poetry |
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| Books | FLOWERS OF THE WIND (1919); THE NEW WORLD (1921); THE CAPTIVE HERD (1922); THAT WHICH IS PASSED (1923); A SHADOW FALLS (1954) |
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| Periodicals | CANADIAN MAGAZINE |
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| Father's name | John Atkin |
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| Life dates of father | c1848, England |
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| Father's note | proprietor and manager of Atkin's Brewery Co. |
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| Mother's name | Emily Grace Murray |
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| Life dates of mother | c1859, Euphemia, Lambton, Ontario - c1881, Canada |
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| Mother's note | Possibly died giving birth to Grace |
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| Biographical references | Sneath, BREWED IN CANADA (2001); 1881 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924; Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935; New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957; Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967; UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 10, 240 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | Ten letters in Newton McTavish papers, North York 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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