Joanna E. (Joanna Ellen) Wood

Born in 1867 in Ontario, Joanna E. Wood — Joanna Ellen Wood — became known as a Canadian novelist and journalist at a time when Canadian fiction was still finding a wide audience. She published a number of novels and was active during the late Victorian and early 20th-century literary world.

Her books include Judith Moore; or, Fashioning a Pipe and Farden Ha', and her writing was noted enough to be featured in early 20th-century reference works on Canadian women. The surviving record available online is fairly brief, but it shows a writer who maintained a visible place in Canadian literary culture during her lifetime.

Wood died in 1927. Though she is not as widely read today as some of her contemporaries, her work remains part of Canada's early fiction tradition and offers a glimpse into the tastes and publishing world of her era.