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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Adams, Myrtle Reynolds
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- Mrs. J. Gordon Adams
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Description area
Dates of existence
1889-1977
History
Myrtle Reynolds Adams was born on August 10, 1889 in Strathroy, Ontario. She graduated from The University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1910 and received the Governor-General’s Academic Medal in her fourth year of studies. She went on to study at Queen’s University and received a Bachelor of Education in 1915. While at Queen’s she met her husband John Gordon Adams, of Glenville, Ontario. They married on September 29, 1917 in London, Ontario and spent the subsequent years moving around the province before leaving the country and settling in Detroit, Michigan. The Adams’ lived in Detroit for twenty two years before returning to London, permanently, in 1951.
Her poetry was published both in literary journals and popular serials; including Atlantic, American Weave, Canadian Forum, Canadian Poetry, Dalhousie Review, Fiddlehead, Georgia Review, Good Housekeeping, Lyric, New York Herald Tribune, Saturday Night and others. Ryerson Press published three chapbooks of her poems: Remember Together (1955); Morning on my Street (1958); To Any Spring (1960) and Fiddlehead Poetry Books published, By a Laugh and a Cry (1973). Sauble Calling, a compilation of already published poems, was self published in 1962. It was illustrated by Toronto artist, Vern Tremewen. Reynolds Adams also published articles and short stories in many popular magazines andnewspapers, including American Home, Better Homes and Gardens, London Free Press, Maclean’s, She, Telegraph Delivery Spirit, Women by Women’s Digest, Woman’s Day and others.
Myrtle Reynolds Adams passed away on September 17, 1977 at the age of 88.