Pauline Johnson

Carole Gerson (Simon Fraser University)

Ed. by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.5: Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America - Canada.
Vol. editors: Renate Eigenbrod (University of Manitoba), Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 10 Mar 1861
Died 7 Mar 1913
Activity 1883-1913

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Cultural Identities

First Nations/Indigenous Canadian

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer
Journalist
Poet
Story-writer

Resources

Emily Pauline Johnson was Canada’s most esteemed woman writer from the 1890s until long after her death in 1913, admired not only for her literary abilities but also for her charismatic talent as a reciter and performer of her own poems and stories. Drawing on her part-Native identity, she became a strong advocate of the rights and views of First Nations Canadians. She was born in 1861 on the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford in what is now the province of Ontario, the youngest of the four children of an English-born mother and a mostly Mohawk father. Descended from a line of Mohawk orators and dignitaries, her father, George Henry Martin Johnson (1816-84), became a church translator, a position that enabled him to meet her mother, …

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Citation: Gerson, Carole. "Pauline Johnson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 June 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5231, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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