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Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, a Canadian poet, novelist, and journalist, was born in Rockwood, Ontario, on April 26, 1857. A Quaker, she came to the United States to attend the Friends Boarding School in Union Springs, New York. A writer from an early age, Ethelwyn published in St. Nicholas when she was just seventeen. She returned to Canada and graduated from Pickering College in Ontario.
In addition to using her own name, Wetherald was known as "Bel Thistlewaite." Her publications included The House of the Trees & Other Poems and a collaboration with Graeme Mercer Adam, An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada.
She contributed to both Canadian and American periodicals, including Canadian Monthly, Wide Awake, and Youth's Companion. Agnes and Elizabeth Cameron collaborated as publishers of Our Wives and Daughters, a Canadian periodical.
Agnes passed away on March 10, 1940, at the age of eighty-two, and was buried in Friends Brick Church Grounds in Pelham, Ontario.
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- The Minneapolis journal. (Minneapolis, Minn.), 02 April 1904. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045366/1904-04-02/ed-1/seq-37/>
- The Globe-republican. (Dodge City, Kan.), 17 Dec. 1890. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84029853/1890-12-17/ed-1/seq-6/>
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