Jean Blewett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean Blewett

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1862

Place of Birth: Kent County, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1934

Profession: writer, poet, suffragette, journalist, essayist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Jean Blewett

  • Jean McKishnie Blewett (4 November 1862 – 19 August 1934) was a Canadian journalist, author and poet.Blewett was born Janet McKinshie in Scotia, Kent County, Ontario in 1862 to Scottish immigrants (some sources say 1872).
  • She attended St.
  • Thomas Collegiate and in 1879 married Bassett Blewett and published her first novel, Out of the Depths.
  • In 1896, she won a $600 prize from the Chicago Times-Herald for her poem "Spring".Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department.
  • In 1919, assisted by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, she published a booklet titled Heart Stories to benefit war charities.
  • During this time she regularly lectured on topics such as temperance and suffragism.
  • She used the pseudonym Katherine Kent for some of her writing.In 1925 Blewett was compelled by ill-health to retire her editorship.
  • For two years she lived with a daughter in Lethbridge, Alberta, before returning to Toronto in 1927.
  • She died in 1934 in Chatham, Ontario.After her death, fellow female journalist Bride Broder wrote in tribute: There is a simplicity about Mrs.
  • Blewett's prose and verse that has made a wide appeal, and her gay-hearted attitude to life, the humorous twists she gave to little things, made her very welcome as a speaker at women's gatherings.
  • In all her writings she touched on the things that appeal to women everywhere and, in doing so, won the admiration of men readers also. Her brother, Archie P.
  • McKishnie, was also a noted writer.

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