Sarah Anne Curzon

Kym Bird (York University)

Ed. by Glen Nichols, Mount Allison University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.1: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): Colonial and The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia), Cynthia Sugars (University of Ottawa)

Dates

Born 1833
Died 1898
Activity 1876-1898

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

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Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Curzon's Works

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Sarah Anne Curzon was Canada’s first self-declared feminist playwright. A writer, journalist, editor, and political activist, Curzon is remembered primarily for her two closet dramas,

Laura Secord: The Heroine of 1812

(1887) and

The Sweet Girl Graduate

(1882). She was a member of Canada’s first feminist organization, the Toronto Women’s Literary Club, a founding member of the Toronto Suffrage Association and its successor, the Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association, for which she was also recording secretary. She edited

Canada Citizen

(1881?-1884), and edited its women’s page, the first in the country to cover women’s emancipation and access to education. She was a lecturer, a historian, and the driving force behind the establishment of the Canadian Women’s Historical…

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Citation: Bird, Kym. "Sarah Anne Curzon". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 February 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5262, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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