| Main entry | Clint, Mabel Brown |
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| Birth place | Quebec City, Quebec |
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| Birth date | 21 June 1874 |
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| Death place | Saint Anne de Bellevue, Quebec |
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| Death date | 17 March 1939 |
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| Identifier | 0243 |
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| Birth name | Mabel Brown Clint |
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| Alternate names | Harold Saxon |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Religious affiliation | Presbyterian |
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| Paid work | nurse |
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| Biography | Under her pseudonym, "Harold Saxon," Mabel Brown Clint (1874-1939) published a novel and compiled the IMPERIAL ANNIVERSARY BOOK (1909). A 1910 nursing graduate of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, she volunteered for active service at the outbreak of World War I at the age of forty (1914). She was one of the first nurses on the front in France, and also worked in Greece and Belgium. Her experiences in France, Lemnos and Egypt are recounted in OUR BIT: MEMORIES OF WAR SERVICE BY A NURSING SISTER (1934). Other than one additional year spent in England in 1930-31, Mabel seems to have lived the rest of her life in Quebec, where she died in 1939. |
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| Travel | London, England, 1925, 1930 |
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| Residences | Quebec City, Quebec (1874 - 1901) |
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| Geographic regions | Quebec |
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| Primary genres | fiction; non-fiction |
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| Books | UNDER THE KING'S BASTION: A ROMANCE OF QUEBEC (1902); IMPERIAL ANNIVERSARY BOOK (1909); OUR BIT: MEMORIES OF WAR SERVICE BY A NURSING SISTER (1934) |
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| Father's name | William Clint |
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| Life dates of father | 10 November 1847, Quebec City - 2 November 1925, Quebec City; m. 1872 |
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| Father's note | clerk; insurance agent |
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| Mother's name | Caroline Brown |
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| Life dates of mother | 6 May 1849, Quebec City - 30 August 1920, Quebec City; m. 1872 |
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| Biographical references | Dagg, THE FEMININE GAZE (2001), p. 69; 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918; Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935; 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. 262, 480, 864 |
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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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