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| Born | 1864 Montreal, Quebec, British Canada |
| Died | 1935 (aged 70–71) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
Maud Ogilvy (1864-1935) was a Canadian writer and poet.
Personal life
[edit]Maud Ogilvy was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1864..[1] She grew up with privilege and attended the ladies' academy of Misses Gairdner, and later a finishing school in London, England.[2] She then began a career as a writer, first by contributing to the press, then by writing short stories[2]. Eventually, she published her first book, Marie Gourdon: A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence, in 1890. In the early 1890s, Maud Ogilvy moved to California, where she met her husband, Hugh Morrow, and published some of her later works.[2] She died in Berkeley, California, in 1935[1]
Family
[edit]Maud Ogilvy was born to John Ogilvy (born c. 1828, Brechin, Scotland) and Ellen Grasett Powell (born c. 1840, Ontario).[2]. John Ogilvy was a merchant and insurance agent who moved to Canada before marrying Ellen Grasett Powell in 1862.[2] Maud Ogilvy was the oldest of four children, her siblings being Laurence Murray Ogilvy, a banker for the Bank of Montreal, Florence Dagmar Ogilvy, and John Herber Cecil Ogilvy, a soldier who served in the Yukon Field Force and the Gordon Highlanders[2]. She married Hugh Morrow in 1904.[2]
Career
[edit]Maud Ogilvy completed two fiction books. Her first, Marie Gourdon: A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence, was a novel published in 1890.[2] The novel is about three friends from Father Point, Quebec: [3] Marie Gourdon, a singer; Eugène Lacroix, a painter; and Noel McAllister, a writer.[3] Taught by their priest, M. Bois-le-Duc, they grow as artists into adulthood.[3]
Her second book, published in 1891, was The Keeper of Bic Lighthouse: A Canadian Story of To-Day.[2]
In addition to her fiction, Maud Ogilvy also wrote poetry, such as Gold and Silver: the Best Twenty Poems, Thoughts Extant, A Christmas Song, and Other Verses, and Eastertide, and Other Verses.[2] She also contributed to several newspapers, including the Boston Transcript, Canadian Magazine, and the Philadelphia Ledger.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Maud Ogilvy". Database of Canadian Early Women Writers. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Maud Ogilvy". CWRC/CSEC. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ^ a b c MacMillan, Carrie (1980-01-01). "The Figure of the Artist in Late Nineteenth Century Canadian Fiction". Studies in Canadian Literature. ISSN 1718-7850.