| Main entry | Hughes, Agnes Lockhart |
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| Birth place | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
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| Birth date | c January 1866 |
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| Death place | Seattle, Washington, USA |
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| Death date | 25 January 1942 |
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| Identifier | 0135 |
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| Birth name | Agnes Helen Lockhart |
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| Married name | Hughes |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Catholic |
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| Paid work | bookkeeper; journalist; music critic; associate editor, SEATTLE MAIL AND HERALD; editor Seattle Dept. MUSICAL WEST AND NORTHWEST MUSICIAN; editor, music dept, SCREENLAND |
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| Biography | When still a child in Halifax, Agnes Helen Lockhart (c1866-1942) began to contribute verses to the local newspapers. She received her education at Sacred Heart Covent and County Academy, after which she moved the US some time around the late 1880s. Like her uncle, Arthur John Lockhart, a poet and writer known as "Pastor Felix," she made her reputation in America, becoming established as a poet and song writer in Boston. Although she referred to herself as "a Canadian by birth, a Bostonian by adoption," her first volume of poetry, which she published in Boston, was a loyal tribute to Nova Scotia and the Queen in her Jubilee year of 1897. While in Vancouver in 1903, Agnes married William Francis Hughes, a music teacher, and accompanied him to Seattle where she became music and clubs feature editor on the Seattle MAIL AND HERALD. While Agnes was attached to that paper, her articles and poems appeared in virtually every issue, and she wrote as well for the GREATER WEST MAGAZINE. During this time, the couple also welcomed their only child, named Lockhart Beach after Agnes's friend, American composer Amy Beach. The friendship between the two women was mutually beneficial in terms of profession: Agnes memorialized Amy in "Mrs. H. H. A. Beach: America's Foremost Woman Composer" for SIMMONS MAGAZINE in 1911, while Beach produced the musical pieces for which Agnes wrote lyrics, such as "Hush Baby Dear." Throughout her literary career, Agnes also wrote lyrics for composers Reginald De Koven, James P. Dunn, and Kate Gilmore Black. During the First World War, Agnes earned further renown for her poem, "The Little Cross of Flanders," which she wrote upon the return of her uncle Stewart Manning Kinder from overseas. During the 1920s, she served as the Seattle editor for MUSICAL WEST AND NORTHWEST MUSICIAN, and also as editor of the music department for SCREENLAND. Widowed some time during the 1920s, Agnes died in Seattle in 1942. |
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| Other notes | An "Alice Lockhart Hughes" also appears in similar periodicals, such as OVERLAND MONTHLY. In 1906, Agnes was selected to present her poem, "The Wreck of the Valencia," at the memorial service for those who perished in the sinking of the ship off the coast of Vancouver Island. In 1907, she wrote a feature article on the totem poles of Seattle in the SEATTLE PATRIARCH. Birth record reads "Agnes Ellen Lockhart." WHO'S WHO states that marriage took place in Dover, New Hampshire. |
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| Residences | Halifax, Nova Scotia (1866-late 1880s); Boston, Massachusetts (c late 1880s-1903); Seattle (1903-1942) |
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| Geographic regions | Nova Scotia; USA |
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| Primary genres | poetry; songs; journalism |
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| Books | GEMS FROM SCOTIA'S CROWN (1897); TOLD IN THE GARDEN (1902); MOUNT RAINIER (c1904) |
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| Periodicals | BOSTON COOKING MAGAZINE; BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT; GREATER WEST MAGAZINE; LIPPINCOTT'S; MUNSEY'S; MUSICAL WEST AND NORTHWEST MUSICIAN; OVERLAND MONTHLY (also as various titles, including THE CALIFORNIAN AND THE OVERLAND MONTHLY and THE OVERLAND MONTHLY AND THE OUT WEST MAGAZINE); PACIFIC MONTHLY; PEOPLE'S MAGAZINE; PEOPLE'S FAVORITE MAGAZINE; SCREENLAND; SEATTLE MAIL AND HERALD; SEATTLE PATRIARCH; SIMMONS MAGAZINE; SPOKANE DAILY CHRONICLE; WESTWARD HO! |
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| Other arts | music |
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| Father's name | Charles T. Lockhart |
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| Life dates of father | c1831, St. John, New Brunswick - c1882 |
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| Father's note | bookkeeper |
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| Mother's name | Mary Ann Burke |
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| Life dates of mother | c1836, Halifax, Nova Scotia - c1922, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Spouse 1 | William Francis Hughes |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | c1875, New Hampshire - 1920s, Seattle, Washington |
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| Spouse 1 note | teacher (music); department manager at dry goods store |
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| Marriage 1 date | 9 September 1903 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Children number | 1 |
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| Children's names and dates | Lockhart Beach (4 August 1904 - 24 June 1993), m. to Clifford Allen Rainey (♀) |
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| Biographical references | WHO'S WHO IN WASHINGTON STATE, VOL. 1 (1927), p. 120; 1871 Census of Canada; 1881 Census of Canada; 1900 United States Federal Census; 1920 United States Federal Census; 1930 United States Federal Census; British Columbia Marriage Index: 1872 to 1924; Nova Scotia, Canada, Births, 1836-1910; special thanks to Alice Hutchinson for family contributions |
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| Bibliographic references | Library of Congress (National Union Catalogue) |
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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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