Emily Julian McManus (1865 – 1918) was a Canadian poet, writer, and educator. In addition to a number of poems, some of which were reproduced in the collection of

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, and some by

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'', she was the author of "Froney" (a prize story in the

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''Week''), of "A Romance of Carleton", of "The Thirteenth Temptation", and of the ''Old, Old Story'', the latter a novel.

Biography

Emily Julian McManus was born in

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, on December 30, 1865. She was of Irish descent on both her father's and mother's side. Her parents were Patrick Teevan McManus (1814–1888) and Julia Ann (Koen) McManus (1826–1864). McManus grew up an imaginative child, fond of the companionship of books, especially books of poetry. She obtained her early education in the public school of her native town. She also attended the

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and the

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, being fitted to be a public-school teacher in the latter. After teaching for a period with marked success, she entered, in 1888, the arts department of

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(M.A., with First Class final honours in English Literature and Political Science, 1894). Emily Julian McManus (Vox Lycei Spring 1918)

McManus was a literary reviewer for several years for the ''Free Press'' and the ''

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''. She contributed short poems, sketches, and critical essays to various magazines, including the

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''Whig'', the Toronto ''

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'', the ''Irish Canadian'', the ''Educational Journal'', ''Queen's College Journal'', and the Toronto ''Week''. She also contributed poems to Lighthall's ''Songs of the Great Dominion'' (Walter Scott,

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, 1889); he made special mention of McManus' poem, "Manitoba," in his introduction to that work. Among the best known of her poetical pieces were "Gordon at Khartoum", "Manitoba", "Robert Browning", "Canada", "Drifting", "In April Weather", and "The Lady of Ponce de Leon". McManus was a member of the Children's Flower Guild, Queen's Alumni of Ottawa, Women's Canadian Club, and the University Women's Club. She favored woman's suffrage. Emily Julian McManus died September 21, 1918.

Selected works

Poems

* "Gordon at Khartoum" * "Manitoba" * "Robert Browning" * "Canada" * "Drifting" * "In April Weather" * "The Lady of Ponce de Leon"

Short stories

* "Froney" * "A Romance of Carleton" * "The Thirteenth Temptation"

Novels

* ''Old, Old Story''

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:McManus, Emily Julian 1865 births 1918 deaths Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century People from Lennox and Addington County 19th-century Canadian poets 19th-century Canadian women writers Queen's University at Kingston alumni 19th-century Canadian educators 20th-century Canadian educators Canadian women educators Canadian literary critics Canadian women literary critics