Ethel Rolt Wheeler (

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Rolt Wheeler; 12 July 1869,

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) was an English poet, author and journalist.

Biography

Ethel Rolt Wheeler was born Mary Ethel Wheeler, the daughter of the stone merchant Joseph Wheeler,Joseph and Amina are recorded as living at Grassmore House, Lewisham, Kent, England, on the 1881 census and Amina Cooke Taylor, both of whom were of Irish descent. The New York Times Saturday Review of Books, Saturday, September 3, 1910.
/ref> She wrote using the pen name "Rolt Wheeler", as did her brother, the author and occultist 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. 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'',''An Index to The Theosophical Review 1897–1909'' London.
/ref> ''East and West'', '' The Atlantic Monthly'', '' The London Magazine'', ''Irish Book Lover'', ''

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'',''Harper's Magazine'', July 1908.
/ref> ''The Butterfly'', '' The Anglo-Saxon Review''A Bibliography of Yeats Criticism, 1887–1965, p. 271.
/ref> and ''Great Thought'' as well as working for and contributing work to ''The Academy''. She also wrote in support of the suffragette movement in articles such as ''Fair Ladies in Revolt'' in '' The Englishwoman's Review''The Englishwoman
/ref> In 1915, she is recorded as living at 59, Stradella Road, Herne Hill.Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, 1919.
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Selected works

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

References

External links

Alice Meynell letters to Ethel Rolt Wheeler, 1910-1911
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel 1869 births 1958 deaths People from Lewisham Irish women poets Irish women short story writers 20th-century Irish women writers 20th-century Irish short story writers Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers