Ethelwyn Wetherald

Agnes Ethelwynn Wetherald (April 26, 1857 - March 9, 1940) was a Canadian poet.

Life
She was born at Rockwood, Ontario, the daughter of Rev. William Wetherald, a Quaker minister. She was educated at the Friends' Boarding School in Union, New York, and at Pickering College. She then worked for several decades as a journalist, editorial assistant at newspapers in Ontario and the north-eastern United States. For a time she 'conducted the Women's Department' of the Toronto Globe under the pseudonym "Bel Thistlethwait."

Writing
Reviewing her 1907 book, The Last Robin, The Globe pronounced: "The salient quality of Miss Wetherald's work is its freshness of feeling, a perennial freshness, renewable as spring. This has a setting of harmonious form, for the poet's ear is delicately attuned to the value of words, both as to the sound and the meaning.... The sonnets are an important part of the volume, and, to some minds, will represent the most important part. Miss Wetherald's sonnets are flowing in expression and harmonious in thought; some are beautiful."

Publications

 * The House of the Trees and Other Poems. Toronto: William Briggs, 1895.
 * Tangled in Stars: Poems. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1902.
 * The Radiant Road. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1904.
 * The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets. Toronto: William Briggs, 1907.
 * Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets. Toronto: Musson, 191?.
 * Tree-top Mornings. Boston: Cornhill, 1921.
 * Lyrics and Sonnets. 1931. ''

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the University of Toronto.