Wilkinson, Anne (1910–1961)

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Wilkinson, Anne (1910–1961)

Canadian poet. Born Anne Gibbons, Sept 21, 1910, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; died of cancer, May 10, 1961, in Toronto; m. Frederick Robert Wilkinson, 1932 (div. 1954); children: 3.

Attended schools in US and France; was founding editor and patron of The Tamarack Review; works include Counterpoint to Sleep (1951), The Hangman Ties the Holly (1955), Lions in the Way: A Discursive History of the Oslers (1956), and Swan and Daphne (1960); The Collected Poems of Anne Wilkinson and a Prose Memoir published posthumously (1968).

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