Ethel Rolt Wheeler

Ethel Rolt Wheeler (born July 12 1869, London – died October 1958, Glasgow). Poet, author and journalist.

Ethel Rolt Wheeler was born Mary Ethel Wheeler, the daughter of the stone merchant, Joseph WheelerJoseph and Amina are recorded as living at Grassmore House, Lewisham, Kent, England on the 1881 census] and Amina Cooke Taylor both of Irish decent. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9900E3D61230E233A25750C0A96F9C946196D6CF The New York Times Saturday Review of Books, Saturday, September 3, 1910.] ] She wrote using the pen name Rolt Wheeler, as did her brother, the author and occultist [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Rolt-Wheeler Francis Rolt Wheeler] . She was the granddaughter of the Cork shipbuilder Joseph Wheeler on her paternal side and author and anti-Corn law propagandist, William Cooke Taylor on her maternal side. [http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/gissing/newsletter-journal/journal-32-3.pdf The Gissing Journal, Volume XXXII, number 3, July 1996] ]

In the 1890s she became a committee member of the Irish Literary Society of London and chair of the Irish Circle of the Lyceum Club.David James O’Donogheu, The poets of Ireland: a biographical and bibliographical dictionary of Irish writers of English verse, Hodges Figgis & Co., Dublin, 1912]

She was a prolific author and contributed to many journals including Dome, The Theosophical Review, [http://www.austheos.org.au/indices/TH_REV.HTM An Index to The Theosophical Review 1897-1909 London.] ] East and West, Atlantic Monthly, London, Irish Book Lover, Harper's Magazine [http://www.harpers.org/subjects/EthelRoltWheeler Harper’s Magazine, July 1908.] ] , The Butterfly, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/s2112.htm#A83242 The FictionMags Index] ] The Anglo-Saxon Review [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YB0bAAAAIAAJ&dq=Wheeler,+Ethel&lr=&ei=R7MgSKvACYGuywTaq7jZBg A Bibliography of Yeats Criticism, 1887-1965, p271.] ] and Great Thought [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YB0bAAAAIAAJ&dq=Wheeler,+Ethel&lr=&ei=R7MgSKvACYGuywTaq7jZBg A Bibliography of Yeats Criticism, 1887-1965, p271.] ] as well as working for and contributing work to The Academy. [http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/gissing/newsletter-journal/journal-32-3.pdf The Gissing Journal, Volume XXXII, number 3, July 1996] ] She also wrote in support of the suffragette movement in articles such as "Fair Ladies in Revolt" in Englishwoman's Review [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5m4YAAAAIAAJ&q=Wheeler,+Ethel&dq=Wheeler,+Ethel&ei=dqcgSLrPEIzizATeotnwAQ&pgis=1 The Englishwoman] ]

In 1915 she is recorded as living at 59, Stradella Road, Herne Hill. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1zQMAAAAIAAJ&q=ROLT-WHEELER,+Ethel&dq=ROLT-WHEELER,+Ethel&lr=&ei=ZI4bSKefEIiWzATanojWBg&pgis=1 Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, 1919.] ]

References

Bibliography

* Wheeler, Ethel (1903). Verses, R. Brimley Johnson;
* Wheeler, Ethel (1905). The Year’s Horoscope, sonnets, The Brochure Series
* Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1906). [http://www.archive.org/details/behindveil00roltiala Behind the Veil] , Tales, David Nutt, London
* Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1910). Fabulous Blue-Stockings, Methuen, London
* Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1913). Ireland’s Veils, and other poems, Elkin Mathews, London
* Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1913). [http://www.archive.org/details/womenofcellclois00roltiala Women of the Cell and Cloister] , Methuen, London
* Gawsworth, John (ed.) (1937). Richards’ Shilling Selections from Modern Poets: Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, London

External links

* [http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/wheeler.htm Letters to Ethel Rolt Wheeler, 1901–1938]

* [http://irishliterature.library.emory.edu/content.php?id=doc099_448_1087 Alice Meynell letters to Ethel Rolt Wheeler, 1910-1911]