Annie Charlotte Dalton Explained

Anne Charlotte Dalton
Honorific Suffix:MBE
Birth Name:Annie Charlotte Armitage
Birth Date:December 9, 1865
Birth Place:Birkby, Yorkshire, UK
Death Date:January 12, 1938 (age 72)
Death Place:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation:Poet

Annie Charlotte Armitage Dalton MBE (December 9, 1865 – January 12, 1938) was an English-born Canadian poet, sometimes known as "the Poet Laureate of the Deaf."[1] [2]

Early life

Annie Charlotte Armitage was born in Birkby, Yorkshire, the daughter of John Armitage and Sarah Elizabeth Stoney. She was raised in the household of her grandparents, James and Hannah Stoney.[3] She became deaf after a childhood illness.[4]

Career

Dalton published several volumes of poetry.[5] Her work was also published in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.[6] She was president of the Vancouver Poetry Club, and a member of the Canadian Authors Association, among other literary organizations.[7] [8] She was active in the Vancouver Poetry Society alongside fellow members Bliss Carman, Lorne Pierce, A. M. Stephen, and Charles G. D. Roberts. She and Pierce were both deaf, and discussed their deafness in correspondence.[9]

Honours

In 1935, Dalton was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for her services to literature. She received the Tweedsmuir Medal from Canadian Poetry Magazine for The Neighing North.[10]

Publications

Much of Dalton's poetry has Canadian themes, and titles such as The Ear Trumpet (1926) and The Silent Zone (1926) reference her experiences as a deaf woman.[11] "It is in her later volumes, which are largely cosmic in scope and deal with the fundamentals of life, that the power and range of this poet's imagination have left a more permanent impression," noted one of her contemporaries in a 1938 tribute.[12]

Personal life and legacy

Annie Armitage married businessman Will Dalton in 1891. They had a daughter, Edith Evelyn. The Daltons moved to Canada in 1904. She died in 1938, at the age of 72, in Vancouver, after years of frail health.

There is a collection of her papers at the University of British Columbia, donated by her grandson, Anthony Dalton Scott, an economist.[20] There is a small collection of 1930s letters by Dalton at the University of Calgary,[21] and other items in the Lorne and Edith Pierce Collection at Queen's University Archives.[22] Dalton's life and work remain the subject of literary scholarship.[23] [24]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1935-06-03 . Vancouver Poet is Honored in Birthday List . 9 . The Province . 2023-05-20 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: Colman . Mary Elizabeth . 1931-11-21 . A Very Gallant Lady . 11 . The Province . 2023-05-20 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Book: Garvin, John William . Canadian Poets . 1926 . McClelland & Stewart, limited . 978-0-8274-2000-7 . 345–350 . en.
  4. Bowman, Jim, and Sandy Ayer (1983). Annie Charlotte Dalton, 1865–1938: An Inventory of Her Papers in the Library of the University of British Columbia.
  5. Web site: Annie Charlotte Armitage Dalton . 2023-05-20 . Database of Canadian Early Women Writers.
  6. Book: Gerson, Carole . https://books.google.com/books?id=nydWMlWnvUUC&pg=PA60 . Re(dis)covering Our Foremothers: Nineteenth-century Canadian Women Writers . 1990 . University of Ottawa Press . 978-0-7766-0197-7 . McMullen . Lorraine . 60 . en . Anthologies and the Canon of Early Canadian Women Writers.
  7. Book: Who's who in Canada . 1927 . International Press . 1072 . en.
  8. News: 1931-06-26 . Group of Seven Needed for Poetry; Annie Charlotte Dalton Appeals for Leadership to Develop Originality . 17 . The Province . 2023-05-20 . Newspapers.com.
  9. Book: Campbell, Sandra . Both Hands: A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press . 2013-05-01 . McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP . 978-0-7735-8865-3 . 147–148 (on Pierce's deafness), 258 (on Vancouver Poetry Society) . en.
  10. Book: Adams, John Coldwell . Sir Charles God Damn: The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts . 1986-12-15 . University of Toronto Press . 978-1-4426-3294-3 . en.
  11. Book: MacLaren, Eli . Little Resilience: The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books . 2020-10-22 . McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP . 978-0-2280-0481-3 . 7 . en.
  12. News: Robinson . Noel . 1938-01-15 . Annie Charlotte Dalton: A Tribute . 4 . The Province . 2023-05-20 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Book: Dalton, Annie C. (Annie Charlotte) . The marriage of music [microform] ]. 1910 . [Vancouver? : s.n.] . Canadiana.org . 978-0-665-72698-9.
  14. Book: A. C. Dalton . Flame and Adventure . 1924 . The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited . Internet Archive.
  15. Book: Dalton . Annie Charlotte Armitage . The ear trumpet . MacDonald . J. E. H. (James Edward Hervey) . 1926 . Toronto : Ryerson Press . McGill University Library . English.
  16. Calkins . Ernest Elmo . June 4, 1927 . The Literature of the Deaf . Saturday Review of Literature . 3 . 879.
  17. Book: Dalton, Annie Charlotte Armitage . The Silent Zone . 1926 . Cowan & Brookhouse . en.
  18. Book: Dalton, Annie Charlotte Armitage . The amber-riders : and other poems . 1929 . Toronto, Ryerson Press . Internet Archive.
  19. Book: Dalton, Annie Charlotte Armitage . Lilies and Leopards . 1935 . Ryerson Press . en.
  20. Web site: Anthony Dalton Scott . 2023-05-20 . The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  21. Web site: Annie Charlotte Dalton . 2023-05-19 . Canadian Literary and Art Archives, University of Calgary.
  22. Web site: Annie Charlotte Dalton . 2023-05-19 . Queen's University Archives.
  23. Campbell, Wanda. "Hidden Hunger: Early Canadian Women Poets" in Janice Fiamengo, ed., Home Ground and Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature (University of Ottawa Press 2014): 197.
  24. Campbell, Wanda. "Moonlight and Morning: Women's Early Contribution to Canadian Modernism" in Dean Irvine, ed., The Canadian Modernists Meet (University of Ottawa Press 2005): 80.

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