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Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Jane Christmas
- Jane Christmas (born 1954) is a Canadian travel writer, who was a shortlisted nominee for the Stephen Leacock Award and the Word Awards in 2014 for her memoir And Then There Were Nuns.
- The book chronicles a year she spent in various convents while discerning whether to marry for a third time or to take up a vocation as an Anglican nun.
- In 2011, she was accepted as an associate with the Canadian Anglican religious community, the Sisterhood of St.
- John the Divine. Christmas was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario to an Anglican father and a Roman Catholic mother.
- Her father John Grimshaw was a newspaper reporter with The Canadian Press before joining the field of public relations as one of its early practitioners.
- Her mother Valeria was also a reporter and editor (The Canadian Press, Don Mills Mirror).
- She was educated at St.
- Clement's School and Loretto Abbey, and graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Arts (English and History).
- Moving to Hamilton, Ontario, she began a long career as a newspaper editor and journalist, working for Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, the Hamilton Spectator and the National Post, and later as a public relations manager in the public sector, before devoting her time exclusively to writing.
- A founding member of the Hamilton Civic League, she remained in the city for more than 20 years.
- She currently lives in England.
- She has published four books of what is termed travel writing but of which she prefers to call journey memoir, and co-wrote A Journey Just Begun (2015) for the Sisterhood of St.
- John the Divine in Toronto.
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