Ethel Rolt Wheeler

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Ethel Rolt Wheeler

Ethel Rolt Wheeler (pen name, Rolt Wheeler; 12 July 1869, Lewisham, London – October 1958, Glasgow) was an English poet, author and journalist.

Biography[]

Ethel Rolt Wheeler was born Mary Ethel Wheeler, the daughter of the stone merchant Joseph Wheeler,[1] and Amina Cooke Taylor, both of whom were of Irish descent.[2] She wrote using the pen name "Rolt Wheeler", as did her brother, the author and occultist . She was the granddaughter of the Cork shipbuilder Joseph Wheeler on her paternal side and author and anti-Corn law propagandist, William Cooke Taylor on her maternal side.[3]

In the 1890s, she became a committee member of the Irish Literary Society of London and chair of the Irish Circle of the Lyceum Club.[4]

She was a prolific author and contributed to many journals including Dome, The Theosophical Review,[5] East and West, The Atlantic Monthly, The London Magazine, Irish Book Lover, Harper's Magazine,[6] The Butterfly,[7] The Anglo-Saxon Review[8] and Great Thought[8] as well as working for and contributing work to The Academy.[3] She also wrote in support of the suffragette movement in articles such as Fair Ladies in Revolt in The Englishwoman's Review[9]

In 1915, she is recorded as living at 59, Stradella Road, Herne Hill.[10]

Selected works[]

  • Wheeler, Ethel (1903). Verses, R. Brimley Johnson;
  • Wheeler, Ethel (1905). The Year’s Horoscope, sonnets, The Brochure Series
  • Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1906). Behind the Veil, Tales, David Nutt, London
  • Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1910). Famous Blue-Stockings, Methuen, London
  • Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1913). Ireland’s Veils, and other poems, Elkin Mathews, London
  • Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1913). Women of the Cell and Cloister, Methuen, London
  • Gawsworth, John (ed.) (1937). Richards’ Shilling Selections from Modern Poets: Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, London

References[]

  1. ^ Joseph and Amina are recorded as living at Grassmore House, Lewisham, Kent, England, on the 1881 census
  2. ^ The New York Times Saturday Review of Books, Saturday, September 3, 1910.
  3. ^ a b The Gissing Journal, Volume XXXII, number 3, July 1996
  4. ^ David James O’Donogheu, The poets of Ireland: a biographical and bibliographical dictionary of Irish writers of English verse, Hodges Figgis & Co., Dublin, 1912
  5. ^ An Index to The Theosophical Review 1897–1909 London.
  6. ^ Harper's Magazine, July 1908.
  7. ^ "The FictionMags Index". Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  8. ^ a b A Bibliography of Yeats Criticism, 1887–1965, p. 271.
  9. ^ The Englishwoman
  10. ^ Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, 1919.

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