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Frances Fenwick Williams
1878–1957
A Canadian novelist and playwright from Montreal, she wrote fiction and drama in the early 20th century, with work ranging from historical romance to social satire. Her career also reached into journalism, including commentary on the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.
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The Arch-Satirist
by Frances Fenwick Williams
About the author
Born Frances de Wolfe Fenwick in Montreal in 1878, she later wrote as Frances Fenwick Williams. Reliable sources available here describe her as a Canadian writer active in the early 1900s, and note that she published three novels and a play.
Her known books include The Arch-Satirist, A Soul on Fire, and Viking's Rest: A Story of the Land of Evangeline. The record of her work suggests a writer interested in both dramatic storytelling and the social world around her.
She died in 1957. Although she is not widely known today, her writing still survives through library, archive, and public-domain collections, which has helped keep her work accessible to modern readers.