Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
McEwen, Jessie
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- Agnes Fisher [pseudonym]; Anne Dunning [pseudonym]
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Description area
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History
Jessie McEwen was born in Bannockburn, Ontario in 1899. She worked as a publicity director in Toronto. Throughout the 1930s, she lived in Toronto and worked in turn as a copywriter, advertising manager and the head of the Editorial Department of the Canadian branch of Nelson Publishing House. A number of her titles appeared under the pseudonym, "Agnes Fisher," and possibly "Anne Dunning". Some time prior to the Second World War, Jessie visited Copenhagen and, witnessing there the terror of German refugees, would later incorporate her observations into "The Little Yellow House" (1953). Jessie's books were written primarily for a juvenile audience, she also produced a book of biographical sketches, translated three works of Antoni Gronowicz from the original Polish, and contributed to periodicals as varied as "Saturday Night" and "Rural Canada". Jessie McEwen died in 1986.