Kate Eva Westlake
Kate Eva Westlake | |
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Born | 1856 |
Died | 4 March 1906 |
Nationality | Canada |
Occupation | writer |
Kate Eva Westlake or Aunt Polly Wolly (1856 – 4 March 1906) was a Canadian writer and an early editor.
Life[]
Westlake was born in Ingersoll, Ontario.[1] The family moved to London, Ontario where her father succeeded in business. One of her first published works was a serial western story titled "Stranger Than Fiction," published magazine. She became a sub-editor of the newly formed replacing her brother who died in 1881 at the age of 27.
She was given the editorship of the " ," a family story paper published in Toronto. She sometimes signed her work "Aunt Polly Wogg." She was a Baptist and a Liberal. In 1891 a very successful book "Sitting Bull's White Ward" was published exploiting the death of Sitting Bull the year before. Westlake is believed to be its anonymous author.[2]
She wrote for Canadian Magazine.[3] In 1906 she published A Specimen Spinster[4] which was her only book in her name. The book was about the views on life of Aunt Polly Wolly.[2]
Westlake died in London, Ontario in 1906.
References[]
- ^ Woman of the Century.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Ramsay Cook; Jean Hamelin (1994). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 1084–. ISBN 978-0-8020-3998-9.
- ^ Jerry Don Vann; Rosemary T. VanArsdel (1996). Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: An Exploration. University of Toronto Press. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-0-8020-0810-7.
- ^ Kate Westlake Yeigh (1906). A Specimen Spinster. Griffith & Rowland Press.
- 1856 births
- 1906 deaths
- People from Ingersoll, Ontario
- Canadian newspaper editors
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- 19th-century women writers
- Women newspaper editors