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Lilly’s Story
Afterword
Ethel Wilson was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in
1888. She was taken to England at the age of two after her mother
died. Seven years later her father died, and in 1898 she came to
Vancouver to live with her maternal grandmother. She received her
teacher’s certificate from the Vancouver Normal School in 1907 and
taught in many local elementary schools until her marriage in
1921.
In the 1930s Wilson published a few short stories and began a
series of family reminiscences which were later transformed into
The Innocent Traveller. Her first published novel, Hetty Dorval,
appeared in 1947, and her fiction career ended fourteen years later
with the publication of her story collection, Mrs. Golightly and
Other Stories. Through her compassionate and often ironic
narration, Wilson explores in her fiction the moral lives of her
characters.
For her contribution to Canadian literature, Wilson was awarded the
Canada Council Medal in 1961 and the Lorne Pierce Medal of the
Royal Society of Canada in 1964. Her husband died in 1966, and she
spent her later years in seclusion and ill-health.
Ethel Wilson died in Vancouver in 1980.
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