Kate Eva Westlake

Kate Eva Westlake or Aunt Polly Wolly (1856 – 4 March 1906) was a Canadian writer and an early editor.

Kate Eva Westlake
Born1856
Ingersoll, Ontario
Died4 March 1906
London
NationalityCanada
Occupationwriter

Life

Westlake was born in Ingersoll, Ontario.[1] The family moved to London, Ontario where her father succeeded in business. One of her first published works was a serial western story titled "Stranger Than Fiction," published magazine. She became a sub-editor of the newly formed St. Thomas "Journal," replacing her brother who died in 1881 at the age of 27.

She was given the editorship of the " Fireside Weekly," a family story paper published in Toronto. She sometimes signed her work "Aunt Polly Wogg." She was a Baptist and a Liberal. In 1891 a very successful book "Sitting Bull's White Ward" was published exploiting the death of Sitting Bull the year before. Westlake is believed to be its anonymous author.[2]

She wrote for Canadian Magazine.[3] In 1906 she published A Specimen Spinster[4] which was her only book in her name. The book was about the views on life of Aunt Polly Wolly.[2]

Westlake died in London, Ontario in 1906.

References
  1. Woman of the Century.
  2. Ramsay Cook; Jean Hamelin (1994). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 1084–. ISBN 978-0-8020-3998-9.
  3. Jerry Don Vann; Rosemary T. VanArsdel (1996). Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: An Exploration. University of Toronto Press. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-0-8020-0810-7.
  4. Kate Westlake Yeigh (1906). A Specimen Spinster. Griffith & Rowland Press.
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