| Main entry | Knight, Dorothy Wolters |
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| Birth place | Massachusetts, USA |
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| Birth date | 31 January 1881 |
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| Death place | Lancaster, Glengarry, Ontario |
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| Death date | 1 August 1913 |
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| Identifier | 0132 |
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| Birth name | Dorothea Wolters Knight |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Religious affiliation | Methodist; Free Church |
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| Biography | Poor health kept Dorothea Wolters Knight (1881-1913) from attending school, but not from developing her intellect. Like her great-grandmother, Ann Cuthbert Rae,* Dorothy had literary aspirations, and at eleven years old published two booklets of poetry, one of which received an Honorable Mention at the Chicago World's Fair. Her father, Robert Skakel Knight (1841-1900), a classical scholar and long-time member of the Royal Society of Literature, avidly promoted her work. Suffering for a few years from mental illness affecting her cognitive abilities, Dorothy died at thirty-two of epileptic convulsions. |
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| Honours and awards | Award for either VERSES or OTHER VERSES, Diploma of Honourable Mention, Chicago World's Fair |
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| Residences | Dunham, Ontario (1881); St. Lambert, Chambly, Quebec (1891); Brockville, Ontario; Lancaster, Glengarry, Ontario (1911-1913) |
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| Geographic regions | Ontario |
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| Primary genres | poetry |
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| Books | ECHOES FROM THE THOUSAND ISLANDS [also titled VERSES] (1892); OTHER VERSES (1893); THE VISION OF THE SEASONS, AND OTHER VERSES (1898) |
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| Father's name | Robert Skakel Knight |
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| Life dates of father | 27 May 1841, Quebec - 16 May 1900; m. 1878 |
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| Father's note | classical scholar; member of the Royal Society of Literature; grandson of Ann Cuthbert Rae*; first wife Clara Beatrice Warner Schomberg (1834-1877) |
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| Mother's name | Dorothea Elizabeth Wolters |
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| Life dates of mother | c1852, Turkey - after 1911; m. 1878 |
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| Biographical references | 1891 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada; Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947; Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 107 |
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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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