Anne Wilkinson

Melissa A. Dalgleish (Independent Scholar - North America)
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Anne Cochran Wilkinson was a Canadian poet, prose writer, editor, and historian. She published two collections of poetry,

Counterpoint to Sleep

(1951) and

The Hangman Ties the Holly

(1955), a family history entitled

Lions in the Way: A Discursive History of the Oslers

(1956), and the modern fairy tale for children

Swann and Daphne

(1960). She also wrote drama, short stories, book reviews, and a body of life-writing that is collected in

The Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings of Anne Wilkinson

(1992). She became literary editor of the short-lived little magazine

here and now

in 1949, and helped to found

The Tamarack Review

, which ran from 1956-82. She died in Toronto on May 10, 1961.

Wilkinson was born in Toronto, Ontario on September 21, 1910, but spent much of her childhood in

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Citation: Dalgleish, Melissa A. . "Anne Wilkinson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 July 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13155, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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