Emily Julian McManus

Emily Julian McManus (1865 – 1918) was a Canadian poet, writer, and educator.[1] In addition to a number of poems, some of which were reproduced in the collection of George William Ross, and some by William Douw Lighthall in Songs of the Great Dominion, she was the author of "Froney" (a prize story in the Toronto Week), of "A Romance of Carleton", of "The Thirteenth Temptation", and of the Old, Old Story, the latter a novel.[2]

Emily Julian McManus
"A Woman of the Century"
"A Woman of the Century"
BornDecember 30, 1865
Bath, Canada West
DiedSeptember 21, 1918(1918-09-21) (aged 52)
Occupation
  • poet
  • author
  • educator
Alma mater

Biography

Emily Julian McManus was born in Bath, Canada West, on December 30, 1865.[1] She was of Irish descent on both her father's and mother's side. Her parents were Patrick Teevan McManus (1814–1888) and Julia Ann (Koen) McManus (1826–1864).[3][4][1]

McManus grew up an imaginative child, fond of the companionship of books, especially books of poetry. She obtained her early education in the public school of her native town. She also attended the Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute and the Ottawa Normal School, being fitted to be a public-school teacher in the latter. After teaching for a period with marked success, she entered, in 1888, the arts department of Queen's University at Kingston[1] (M.A., with First Class final honours in English Literature and Political Science, 1894).[2]

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McManus was a literary reviewer for several years for the Free Press and the Ottawa Journal.[4] She contributed short poems, sketches, and critical essays to various magazines, including the Kingston, Ontario Whig, the Toronto Globe, the Irish Canadian, the Educational Journal, Queen's College Journal, and the Toronto Week. She also contributed poems to Lighthall's Songs of the Great Dominion (Walter Scott, London, 1889); he made special mention of McManus' poem, "Manitoba," in his introduction to that work.[1] Among the best known of her poetical pieces were "Gordon at Khartoum", "Manitoba", "Robert Browning", "Canada", "Drifting", "In April Weather", and "The Lady of Ponce de Leon".[2]

McManus was a member of the Children's Flower Guild, Queen's Alumni of Ottawa, Women's Canadian Club, and the University Women's Club. She favored woman's suffrage.[4]

Emily Julian McManus died September 21, 1918.[5]

Selected works

Poems
  • "Gordon at Khartoum"
  • "Manitoba"
  • "Robert Browning"
  • "Canada"
  • "Drifting"
  • "In April Weather"
  • "The Lady of Ponce de Leon"

Short stories
  • "Froney"
  • "A Romance of Carleton"
  • "The Thirteenth Temptation"

Novels
  • Old, Old Story

References
  1. Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "McMANUS, Miss Emily Julian". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 488. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1898). The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography (first ed.). Toronto: William Briggs. p. 754. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. "Emily Julian McManus 30 December 1858 – 21 September 1917 • LQ51-LCH". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  4. Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. American Commonwealth Company. 1914. p. 529. Retrieved 1 December 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. Lisgar Collegiate Institute (1918). Vox Lycei Spring 1918. Lisgar Alumni Association. p. 81. Retrieved 1 December 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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