The Islands: Biographies: Amherst Island Bio 1

Amherst Island Biographies 1

Mrs. Annie Rothwell Christie

The following can be found at: Early Canadiana Online: http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq:

1. From Rand, Theodore H., A Treasury of Canadian Verse, with brief biographical notes. Toronto :London : W. Briggs; J.M. Dent & Co., 1900, page 389. Poetry listed on pages 63, 64 & 66.

CHRISTIE, Mrs. Annie Rothwell: b. London, England, 1837. Came to Canada when four years of age living with her family on Amherst Island, near Kingston, Ontario. Some of her best poems are to be found in the Magazine of Poetry. The examples given in the text were written at the time of the Half Breed Rebellion. She has published no volume of poems, but is the author of four novels of much interest. Resides at the Rectory, North Gower, Ontario. From Rand, Theodore H., A Treasury of Canadian Verse, with brief biographical notes. Toronto :London : W. Briggs; J.M. Dent & Co., 1900, page 389. Poetry listed on pages 63, 64 & 66.

2. From Morgan, Henry J., The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography. Toronto : W. Briggs, 1898. p. 188.

Christie, Mrs. Annie (Annie Rothwell) Author was b. in London, Eng. 1837. When 4 yrs. old, moved to Can. with her father, the late Danl. Fowler, R.C.A. and thereafter lived with her family on Amherst Island, near Kingston. She m. gentleman Rothwell but was left early a widow. She m. 2nd, April 1895, the Rev. I. J. Christie (Ch. of Eng.), now rector of North Gower. She contributed many short prose stories to Am., Can. and Eng. Mags. and some of her best poems have appeared in Mag. of Poetry. She is the author of four novels "Alice Gray" (1873), "Edge Tools" (1880), "Requital" (1886), and "Loved I Not Honour More" (1887). "The best war songs of the Half Breed Rebellion were written," says Sir Edwin Arnold, "by Annie Rothwell. - The Rectory, North Gower, Ont.

The Islands: Biographies: Amherst Island Bio 1