| Main entry | Catley, Elaine M. |
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| Birth place | Bath, Somerset, England |
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| Birth date | 14 November 1889 |
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| Death place | Calgary, Alberta |
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| Death date | 29 July 1984 |
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| Identifier | 0198 |
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| Birth name | Elaine Maud Clark |
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| Married name | Catley |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | United Church of Canada |
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| Paid work | journalist; librarian |
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| Biography | Born in Bath, England and educated in private schools in Guildford, Surrey, Elaine Maud Clark (1889-1984) married Sydney Catley (1886-1972) in 1915. After he served in the Imperial Forces for four years they settled in Calgary, Alberta, in 1920, where they raised four children. Elaine began writing verse when thirteen, and won three one-guinea prizes from JOHN O'LONDON'S WEEKLY. In Canada her poetry and journalism regularly appeared in the CALGARY HERALD and other papers. Active in the Canadian Authors Association and the Canadian Women's Press Club, she included Nellie McClung*, Laura Goodman Salverson*, W.T. Allison and John W. Garvin among her friends. Her six volumes of verse span a career of 58 years. Elaine died in Calgary in 1984. |
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| Travel | Belgium, 1920 |
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| Other notes | Family members buried in Ottawa at Beechwood Cemetery. |
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| Honours and awards | Award for "One Immortality," Monthly one guinea prize (JOHN O'LONDON'S WEEKLY); Award for "Machines," Monthly one guinea prize (JOHN O'LONDON'S WEEKLY); Award for unknown story, Monthly one guinea prize (JOHN O'LONDON'S WEEKLY) |
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| Residences | Bath, England (1889); Stoke, Surrey, England (1891, 1901); London, England (1906-1920); Calgary, Alberta (1920-1984) |
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| Geographic regions | Alberta |
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| Primary genres | poetry; journalism |
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| Books | GREATER LOVE AND OTHER POEMS (1916); STAR DUST, AND OTHER POEMS (1926); ECSTASY AND OTHER POEMS (1927); CANADA CALLING (1938); LIGHT, AND OTHER POEMS (1960); AT THE END OF THE ROAD (1974) |
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| Periodicals | ALBERTA POETRY YEAR BOOK; CALGARY DAILY HERALD; CANADIAN BOOKMAN; CANADIAN DOCTOR; JOHN O'LONDON'S WEEKLY; NORTH HILL NEWS; REGINA LEADER POST; SATURDAY NIGHT; SURREY LEADER |
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| Organizations | Canadian Authors Association; Canadian Women's Press Club; Consider-It Club |
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| Father's name | Frederick Charles Clark |
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| Life dates of father | 8 November 1866, Bath, Somerset, England - 31 October 1942; m. 1887 |
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| Father's note | manager, Music Pianoforte Warehouses; musical instrument dealer |
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| Mother's name | Annie Matilda Whittington |
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| Life dates of mother | 12 July 1868, Bristol, Gloucestershire - 4 March 1919, Brentford, Middlesex, England |
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| Spouse 1 | Sydney Charles William Catley |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 2 September 1886, Lambeth, London, England - 12 October 1972 |
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| Spouse 1 note | bookkeeper/accountant; clerk, probate Court House |
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| Marriage 1 date | 29 December 1915 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Brentford, Middlesex, England |
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| Children number | 4 |
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| Children's names and dates | John Laurence (6 January 1918 - 20 November 1987);
Stella Mary (23 September 1920 - 14 June 1952);
Helen V. (1930 -), m. to Murray Raby;
Colin A. (c1933 - ) |
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| Biographical references | WHO WAS WHO AMONG NORTH AMERICAN AUTHORS 1921-1939; 1891 England Census; 1901 England Census; Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935; England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915; England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 39; National Library of Canada |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | Elaine M. Catley papers, University of Waterloo Library; letter, George A. Palmer papers, Cameron Library, University of Alberta, Edmonton |
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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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