Ethel Rolt Wheeler (pen name Rolt Wheeler; 12 July 1869, Lewisham, London – October 1958, Glasgow) was an English poet, author and journalist.
Biography Ethel Rolt Wheeler was born Mary Ethel Wheeler, the daughter of the stone merchant Joseph Wheeler,Joseph and Amina are recorded as living at Grassmore House, Lewisham, Kent, England, on the 1881 census and Amina Cooke Taylor, both of whom were of Irish descent. The New York Times Saturday Review of Books, Saturday, September 3, 1910. She wrote using the pen name "Rolt Wheeler", as did her brother, the author and occultist . She was the granddaughter of the Cork shipbuilder Joseph Wheeler on her paternal side and author and anti-Corn law propagandist, William Cooke Taylor on her maternal side.
In the 1890s, she became a committee member of the Irish Literary Society of London and chair of the Irish Circle of the Lyceum Club.David James O’Donogheu, The poets of Ireland: a biographical and bibliographical dictionary of Irish writers of English verse, Hodges Figgis & Co., Dublin, 1912
She was a prolific author and contributed to many journals including Dome, The Theosophical Review,An Index to The Theosophical Review 1897–1909 London. East and West, The Atlantic Monthly, The London Magazine, Irish Book Lover, Harper's Magazine,Harper's Magazine, July 1908. The Butterfly, The Anglo-Saxon ReviewA Bibliography of Yeats Criticism, 1887–1965, p. 271. and Great Thought as well as working for and contributing work to The Academy. She also wrote in support of the suffragette movement in articles such as Fair Ladies in Revolt in The Englishwoman's ReviewThe Englishwoman
In 1915, she is recorded as living at 59, Stradella Road, Herne Hill.Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, 1919.
Selected works
Wheeler, Ethel (1903). Verses, R. Brimley Johnson; Wheeler, Ethel (1905). The Year’s Horoscope, sonnets, The Brochure Series Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1906). Behind the Veil, Tales, David Nutt, London Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1910). Famous Blue-Stockings, Methuen, London Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1913). Ireland’s Veils, and other poems, Elkin Mathews, London Rolt-Wheeler, Ethel (1913). Women of the Cell and Cloister, Methuen, London Gawsworth, John (ed.) (1937). Richards’ Shilling Selections from Modern Poets: Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, London
References
External links
Letters to Ethel Rolt Wheeler, 1901–1938 Alice Meynell letters to Ethel Rolt Wheeler, 1910-1911