Ethel Wilson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ethel Wilson

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1888

Place of Birth: Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1980

Profession: novelist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ethel Davis Wilson, (January 20, 1888 – December 22, 1980) was a Canadian writer of short stories and novels. Wilson was born in 1888 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to Robert and Lila Bryant.
She moved to England with her father in 1890 following the death of her mother.
In 1898, after the death of her father, she was taken to live with her maternal grandmother, Annie Malkin in Vancouver, British Columbia.
She received her teacher's certificate in 1907, and for thirteen years taught in Vancouver elementary schools.
In 1921 she married Wallace Wilson, President of the Canadian Medical Association and professor of medical ethics at the University of British Columbia. In 1980 she was hospitalized and suffering from a series of small strokes.
The day before she died, she was in physical distress from passing a kidney stone.
A doctor injected her with medication to ease the pain.