Autobiography | Database of Canadian Early Women Writers

Label	Autobiography
Description	This category includes all forms of writing about the author's own life (such as memoirs, diaries, letters, and personal travel writing).
Created	2017-09-29 2:55:51 PM
Updated	2017-10-25 12:42:36 PM

Anna Brownell Jameson, A Lady’s Diary, 1826
Maria Monk, Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: Or the Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed!, 1836
Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, 1836
Isobel Finlayson, Note Book, 1840-1845, 1845
Emily Elizabeth Shaw Beavan, Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America, 1845
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Personal Recollections, With Explanatory Notes. Accompanied by a Memoir, Embracing the Period from the Close of Personal Recollections to Her Death by L.H. Tonna, 1848
Mary Coy Bradley, A Narrative of the Life and Christian Experience of Mrs. Mary Bradley of Saint John, New Brunswick, 1849
Susanna Moodie, Roughing It in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada, 1852
Eliza Chipman, Memoir of the Life of Mrs. Eliza Ann Chipman, Wife of the Rev. William Chipman, of Pleasant Valley, Cornwallis, 1855
Amelia Matilda Murray, Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada, 1856
Hannah Chapman Guerney Backhouse, Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Hannah Chapman Backhouse, 1859
Emma Edmonds, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps and Battlefields, 1865
Jane Porter, A Six Weeks' Tour in Western Canada, By a Lady, 1865
Henrietta Lushington, Almeria's Castle: Or, My Early Life in India and in England, 1866
Anna Leonowens, Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok, 1870
Anna Leonowens, The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok, 1870
Rose Etheridge Marham, The Cry of a Stricken City: The Last Trip of the S.S. Victoria, By One Who was on Board, 1882
Anna Leonowens, Life and Travel in India: Being Recolletions of a Journey Before the Days of Railroad, 1884
Mary Huestit Pengilly, Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, 1885
Mary Huestit Pengilly, Fredericton Bridge: A Prophetic Warning, 1885
Amelia B. Johnson, From Life's School to the"father's House": A Brief Memoir and Letters of Amelia, Annie, And Thomas, Wife, Daughter, And Son of James Johnson, Commissioner of Customs, Canada, 1888
Grace Elizabeth Denison, A Happy Holiday, 1890
Charlotte Holt Gethings MacPherson, Old Memories: Amusing and Historical, 1890
Charlotte Holt Gethings MacPherson, Reminiscences of Old Quebec: Subterranean Passages Under the Citadel--Account of the Old Convent of the Congregation of the Notre Dame, That Does Not Now Exist, Prominent Old Quebecers, Etc., Etc., 1890
Sara Jeannette Duncan, A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves, 1890
Matilda Ridout Edgar, Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War, 1805-1815, 1890
Charlotte Holt Gethings MacPherson, Nicolet, 1892
Margaret Pauline Anderson, Sickroom Thoughts and Gleanings, 1892
Letitia Youmans, Campaign Echoes: The Autobiography of Mrs Letitia Youmans, The Pioneer of the White Ribbon Movement, 1893
Ishbel Aberdeen, Through Canada with a Kodak, 1893
Lydia Blake Campbell, Sketches of Labrador Life, c1894
Juliana Horatia Ewing, Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home", 1896
E.M. Mason, Faces That Follow, 1898
Margaret Oliphant, Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M.O.W. Oliphant, 1899
Sara Jeannette Duncan, On the Other Side of the Latch, 1901
Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist, 1901
Rosa Elliott Portlock, Twenty-Five Years of Canadian Life, with a Study on Prophecy, 1901
Lydia Fletcher Clark Symmes, My Mother's Journal, 1902
Mary MacLane, The Story of Mary MacLane, 1902
Fannie Cox, Muskoka Memories: Sketches from Real Life, 1904
Ellen Maud Graham, A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902, 1905
Anne Murray Powell, Letters of Mrs. Wm. Dummer Powell, 1807–1821, 1905
E. Cora Hind, Red River Jottings, 1905
E. Cora Hind, Tales of the Road, 1907
Maud Allan, My Life and Dancing, 1908
Sarah Lovell, Reminiscences of Seventy Years, 1908
Emily Murphy, Janey Canuck in the West, 1910
Agnes Deans Cameron, The New North: Being Some Account of a Woman’s Journey Through Canada to the Arctic, 1910
Katherine Sophia Bagg, Reminiscences of a Cruise in the Mediterranean and a Visit to the Holy Land and Egypt, 1910
Georgina Binnie-Clark, A Summer on the Canadian Prairie, 1910
Emma Albani, Forty Years of Song, 1911
E. Cora Hind, Tales of the Road II, 1911
Anna Preston, The Record of a Silent Life, 1912
Agnes Grote Copeland, Oonah: An Irish Love Song, 1913
E. Cora Hind, Tales of the Road III, 1913
Mary Pickford, The Film Life of Mary Pickford, 1914
Mary Morgan, Glimpses Into the Letters of a Wanderer, 1914
Georgina Binnie-Clark, Wheat and Woman, 1914
Winnifred Eaton, Me: A Book of Remembrance, 1915
Mary Pickford, My Strange Life, 1915
Julia E. Cruikshank, Whirlpool Heights: The Dream-House on the Niagara River, 1915
Matilda Moore Faulkner Churchill, Letters from My Home in India, Being the Correspondence of Mrs. George Churchill, 1916
Eleanor Caroline Smyth, An Octogenarian's Reminiscences, 1916
L.M. Montgomery, The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career, 1917
Mary MacLane, I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days, 1917
The Gold Stripe: A Tribute to the British Columbia Men who have been Killed, Crippled and Wounded in the Great War, 1918
Constance Bruce, Humour in Tragedy: Hospital Life Behind Three Fronts by a Canadian Nursing Sister, 1919
Madeleine Blair, Madeleine: An Autobiography, 1919
Aimee Semple McPherson, This Is That: Personal Experiences, Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson, Evangelist, 1919
Agnes Christine McGregor, Memories, 1920
Caroline MacDonald, The Prisons of Tokyo and a Social Service Opportunity, 1920
Flora Eaton, Rippling Rivers: My Diary, 1920
Evelyn Durand, Elise Lebeau: A Dramatic Idyll, And Lyrics and Sonnets, 1921
Ethel Greening Pantazzi, Roumania in Light and Shadow, 1921
Tokichi Ishii, A Gentleman in Prison; with the Confessions of Tokichi Ishii Written in Tokyo Prison, 1922
Geraldine Ball, Some Extracts and Reminiscences of a Lifetime, 1922
Ada Blackjack Johnson, Ada Blackjack's diary, 1923
Aimee Semple McPherson, Declaration of Faith, 1923
Ruth Irwin, Retaliation, 1923
Lilian Mary Faithfull, In the House of My Pilgrimage, 1924
Peggy Webling, Peggy: The Story of One Score Years and Ten, 1924
Ishbel Aberdeen, We Twa: Reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen, 1925
Susan Mein Sibbald, The Memoirs of Susan Sibbald, 1783-1812, 1926
Arabella Mary Stuart, Arabella's Letters Together with the Contents of Her Small Diary 1823-1828, 1927
Emma Scott Raff Nasmith, I'm Going Home, c1927
Aimee Semple McPherson, In the Service of the King: The Story of My Life, 1927
Mary Esther Miller MacGregor, Under the Grey Olives, 1927
Mary Edith Dunckley Angus, Chapters of Life: An Autobiography, 1928
Charlotte Selina Bompas, A Heroine of the North: Memoirs of Charlotte Selina Bompas (1830 - 1917), Wife of the First Bishop of Selkirk (Yukon), With Extracts from Her Journals and Letters, 1929
Ishbel Aberdeen, More Cracks with We Twa, 1929
Martha Louise Black, My First Christmas Memory During the Chicago Fire of 1881, 1930
Mary Pickford, Our Trip Around the World, 1930
Yoshida Kenkō, The Harvest of Leisure, 1931
Margaret O'Hara, Leaf of the Lotus, 1931
Lorna Marjorie Ryan, When I was a Girl in Australia, 1932
Marie Dressler, My Own Story, 1934
Mabel Brown Clint, Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Nursing Sister, 1934
Nellie McClung, Clearing in the West: My Own Story, Volume 1, 1935
Amabel Reeves King, Relics of a V.A.D., 1935
Ishbel Aberdeen, Musings of a Scottish Granny, 1936
Evelyn Cartier Springett, For My Children's Children, 1937
Bessie MacMillan Miller, Mother, 1937
Bessie MacMillan Miller, Five Years, 1938
Edith Field, The Good Old Days: A True Record of Pioneer Life on the North American Continent, 1938
Gwen Cash, I Like British Columbia, 1938
Mary Edith Carey Tyrrell, I was There: A Book of Reminiscences, 1938
Audrey Alexandra Brown, The Log of a Lame Duck, 1938
Martha Louise Black, My Seventy Years, As Told to Elizabeth Bailey Price, 1938
Florence Rozelgha Ward Howey, Pioneering on the C.P.R., 1938
Aloha Baker, Call to Adventure!, 1939
Laura Goodman Salverson, Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter, 1939
E. Cora Hind, My Travels and Findings, 1939
Rosalind Bellsmith Goforth, Climbing: Memories of a Missionary's Wife, 1940
Lilian Mary Faithfull, The Evening Crowns the Day, 1940
Anahareo, My Life with Grey Owl, 1940
Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, 1941
Kathleen Strange, Never a Dull Moment, 1941
Emily Carr, The Book of Small, 1942
Margaret Agnes Galloway, I Lived in Paradise, 1942
Gwen Cash, A Million Miles from Ottawa, 1942
Ella Wallace Manning, Igloo for the Night, 1943
Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, 1944
Phyllis Argall, My Life with the Enemy, 1944
Marie Evelyn Byng, Up the Stream of Time, 1944
Florence Wheelock Ayscough, Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell: Correspondence of a Friendship, 1945
Henrietta McIntosh Goodhand, Foot Prints, 1945
Kathleen Biggar Eaton Cannell, Jam Yesterday, 1945
Dorothy Evelyn Abraham, Lone Cone: A Journal of Life in the West Coast of Vancouver Island, 1945
Phyllis Argall, Prisoner in Japan, 1945
Mary Edith Cowan, Rainbow of Life, 1945
Nellie McClung, The Stream Runs Fast: My Own Story, Volume 2, 1945
Anna Buchan, Unforgettable, Unforgotten, 1945
Emily Carr, Growing Pains, 1946
Clara Middleton, Green Fields Afar: Memories of Alberta Days, 1947
Letitia Hargrave, The Letters of Letitia Hargrave, 1947
Reginald Charles Lister, My Forty-Five Years on the Campus, 1947
Kathleen Hazel Coburn, The Grandmothers, 1949
Ella Wallace Manning, A Summer on Hudson Bay, 1949
Elisabeth Hoemberg, Thy People, My People, 1950
Alice Ravenhill, Memoirs of an Educational Pioneer, 1951
Emily Carr, The Heart of a Peacock, 1953
Madge Macbeth, Over My Shoulder, 1953
Joan Walker, Pardon My Parka, 1953
Jessie Louise Beattie, White Wings Around the World, 1953
Jessie Louise Beattie, Along the Road, 1954
Maida Parlow French, Apples Don't Just Grow, 1954
Mary Graham Bonner, Complete Cheerful Cherub: 1001 Verses, 1956
Kate Aitken, Never a Day So Bright, 1956
Madge Macbeth, Boulevard Career, 1957
Kate Aitken, Making Your Living Is Fun, 1959
Evelyn M. Richardson, My Other Islands, 1960
Annie Margaret Angus, Where I Have Been, 1963
Malcolm Lowry, Malcolm Lowry, Selected Letters, 1965
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, 1966
Elise Aylen Scott, The Night of the Lord, 1967
Margaret Millar, The Birds and Beasts Were There, 1968
Jessie Louise Beattie, A Season Past: Reminiscences of a Canadian Childhood, 1968
Nell Wilson Parsons, Upon a Sage Brush Harp, 1969
Ann Henry, Laugh, Baby, Laugh, 1970
Christie Harris, Mule Lib, 1972
Dorothy Livesay, Beginnings: A Winnipeg Childhood, 1973
Dorothy Evelyn Abraham, Hoots from a Brown Owl, 1973
Florence Bird, Anne Francis: An Autobiography, 1974
Edith Iglauer, Denison's Ice Road, 1974
Evelyn Sybil Mary Eaton, The Trees and Fields Went the Other Way, 1974
Margaret Laurence, Heart of a Stranger, 1976
Martha Louise Black, My Ninety Years, c1976
Susan Louisa Allison, A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan Allison, 1976
Jessie Louise Beattie, A Walk Through Yesterday, 1976
Kathleen Hazel Coburn, In Pursuit of Coleridge, 1977
Gwen Cash, Off the Record: The Personal Reminiscences of Canada's First Woman Reporter, 1977
Carrie Best, That Lonesome Road: The Autobiography of Carrie M. Best, 1977
Edna Jaques, Uphill All the Way, 1977
Edna Jaques, Prairie Born, Prairie Bred: Poetic Reflections of a Pioneer, c1979
Lydia Blake Campbell, Sketches of Labrador Life, By a Labrador Woman, 1980
Lily Richler, The Errand Runner: Reflections of a Rabbi's Daughter, 1981
Emily Carr, Sunlight in the Shadows: The Landscape of the Vision of Emily Carr, 1984
Dorothy Livesay, Beginnings, 1986
Elsa Gidlow, Elsa, I Come with My Songs: The Autobiography of Elsa Gidlow, 1986
Janet Carnochan, Shipwrecked on Sable Island, 1986
Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, The Lovely and the Wild, 1987
Gladys Arnold, One Woman's War: A Canadian Reporter with the Free French, 1987
Edith Iglauer, Fishing with John, 1988
Nell Shipman, The Silent Screen and My Talking Heart: An Autobiography, 1988
Helen Frances Marsh, There’s Lots of Bush...Between the Tee and the Green, 1988
Fredelle Bruser Maynard, The Tree of Life, 1988
Margaret Laurence, Dance on the Earth: A Memoir, 1989
Christine Joseph Quintasket, Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography, 1990
Dorothy Livesay, Journey with My Selves, 1991
Hannah Jarvis, Every Comfort in the Wilderness: A Personal Journal, With Excerpts from the Housewifery Book, Diaries and Letters of Hannah Jarvis, Upper Canada, 1792-1845, 1994
Ruby Cress, Haven’t Any News: Ruby’s Letters from the Fifties, 1995
Annie Butler, If We are Spared to Each Other: Love and Faith Against the Sea: The Diary of Annie Rogers Butler and Letters of Captain John Kendrick Butler, 1995
Mabel Hodgson Gurd, A Fleeting Glimpse: Selected Letters of Mabel (Hodgson) Gurd & Andrew Douglas Gurd, 1996
Doris Anderson, Rebel Daughter: An Autobiography, 1996
Clara Thomas, Chapters in a Lucky Life, 1999
Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison, Diary of a European Tour, 1900, 1999
Emily Carr, Emily Carr and Her Dogs, 2002
Nell Shipman, Letters from God's Country: Nell Shipman, Selected Correspondence& Writings, 1912-1970, 2003
Emily Carr, Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writing, 2003
Gabrielle Roy, Intimate Strangers: The Letters of Margaret Laurence & Gabrielle Roy, 2004
P.K. Page, Hand Luggage: A Memoir in Verse, 2006
Emily Carr, This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr, 2007
Simma Holt, Memoirs of a Loose Cannon, 2008
Margaret Avison, I Am Here and Not Not-There, 2009
Emily Carr, Sister and I from Victoria to London, 2011

A Fair Shake: Autobiographical Essays by McGill Women, 1984
Something About the Author Autobiography Series 10, 1990