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Mrs. J. C. Yule
1825–1897
An American-born Canadian poet and writer, she turned everyday faith, family life, and the natural world into warm, reflective verse. Writing as Mrs. J. C. Yule, she became known for poems that blend moral feeling with a strong sense of home and place.
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Poems of the Heart and Home
by Mrs. J. C. Yule
About the author
Born Pamelia Sarah Vining on April 10, 1826, in Clarendon, New York, she later became known to readers as Mrs. J. C. Yule after marrying James Colton Yule in Woodstock, Ontario, in 1866. She spent part of her early life in New York and Michigan before settling in Canada, where she worked as a teacher and built her literary career.
She wrote poetry, fiction, and essays, and contributed to periodicals in both Canada and the United States. Her best-known book, Poems of the Heart and Home (1881), reflects the qualities that made her popular with many nineteenth-century readers: sincerity, religious feeling, and close attention to domestic life and the Canadian landscape.
She died in Ingersoll, Ontario, on March 6, 1897. Although not widely read today, her work remains part of the record of early Canadian writing and offers a window into the tastes and values of her era.