| 词条 | Mary Esther MacGregor |
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| name = Mary Esther MacGregor | image = | image_size = 250px | caption = | pseudonym = Marian Keith | birth_date = {{birth date|1872|8|27}} | birth_place = Rugby, Oro Township, Simcoe, Ontario | death_date = {{death date and age|1961|2|10|1872|8|27}} | death_place = Owen Sound, Ontario | occupation = Writer (novelist) | nationality = Canadian | period = 20th century | genre = History, fiction | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }} Mary Esther Miller MacGregor, (August 27, 1872 – February 10, 1961) also known as Marian Keith, was a Canadian author of fiction. BiographyMacGregor was born in Rugby, Ontario in 1872. Her parents were John Miller, a schoolteacher, and Mary Brown Johnston. Both parents were of Scottish ancestry. She was the eldest of five children. She attended school in Edgar, Ontario, and the Orillia Collegiate Institute. She received her teacher's certificate from the Toronto Normal school in 1896. Beginning in 1899, she taught for seven years in Orillia.[1] She began writing in 1905. She contributed a column to Teacher's Monthly and then worked on the editorial staff of the Presbyterian Church's Sunday School Publications. In 1906 when she tried to publish her first novel she learned that her name, 'Esther Miller' was already in use by another author so she chose to write under the pen name "Marian Keith".[2] In 1909, she married Donald MacGregor who was one of the founding members of the United Church of Canada.[1] During the time that they were married they moved several times to places in central Ontario to support her husband's ministerial career. She and her husband spent a fair amount of time in London, Ontario where she wrote seven of her novels. While in London, she formed a Sunday school for girls that was called the 'Marian Keith Club'.[3] In 1924, she wrote a book called A Gentleman Adventurer which she based on the life of a neighbour, Thompson Smith. Canadian literary scholars have cited this as her best work.[4] In many of her novels, MacGregor sought to portray her connection between religious thought and social conscience in order to improve life for the poor and uneducated. She also wrote about tensions produced between Scottish and Irish settlers and the effects of education and urbanization on rural society.[3] MacGregor authored more than a dozen novels and several biographies, including Courageous Women which she co-authored with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mabel Burns McKinley. MacGregor was a friend of Montgomery who was also married to a minister. She has been grouped with Montgomery and Nellie McClung as contributors to the revival of Canadian writing by women.[5] Her ability to capture regional attitudes and her use of social anecdotes using a style characterized by zest and humour earned her a strong local following.[6] She and Donald retired to a farm on Georgian Bay but her husband was injured in a train accident and died in 1946. She spent the rest of her life living in Owen Sound, Ontario with her sister and died there in 1961.[2] Works{{div col}}
Source:[7] References1. ^1 {{cite book | last=Dagg | first=Anne Innis | authorlink=Anne Innis Dagg | title=The feminine gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836-1945 |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=IJwyLyaT9KYC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=%22Marian+Keith%22&source=bl&ots=TTWKQWMDku&sig=Lb7TFDO3GPTfZlWDJRgsqkKAU5k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHwv_Y5LzZAhUF8IMKHTpMBOo4ChDoAQhTMAk#v=onepage&q=%22Marian%20Keith%22&f=false |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press |publication-place=Waterloo, Ontario |year=2001 |page=152}} 2. ^1 {{cite web |title=MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller |url=http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-846/macgregor-mary-esther-miller |publisher=Simon Fraser University |date=2014}} 3. ^1 {{cite web |title=Marian Keith [Mary Esther (Marian) Macgregor |url=http://www.londonculture.ca/things-we-do/culture-directory/historic-favourites/marian-keith-mary-esther-marian-macgregor |publisher=London Heritage Council |first1=Hilary Bates |last1=Neary |first2=Nancy Z. |last2=Tausky |year=2018}} 4. ^{{cite news |title=My London: Author Marian Keith wrote yarns about adventures in the country’s northern regions |url=https://lfpress.com/2014/11/30/my-london-author-marian-keith-wrote-yarns-about-adventures-in-the-countrys-northern-regions |first=James Stewart |last=Reaney |newspaper=The London Free Press |date=November 30, 2014}} 5. ^{{cite book |editor-last=New |editor-first=W.H. |title=Canadian Writers 1890-1920 |publication-place=Detroit |publisher=Gale Research |year=1990}} 6. ^{{cite book |editor-last=New |editor-first=W.H. |editor-link=W. H. New |title=Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada |publication-place=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2000 |page=575}} 7. ^{{cite web |title=Mary (Esther) MacGREGOR, nee MILLER |url=http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/cgi-bin/auth.pl?M001098 |publisher=Author and Book Info}} External links
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