Rebecca Agatha Armour

Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1845, Rebecca Agatha Armour trained as a teacher and went on to build a second life as a novelist. She taught in Fredericton and elsewhere in New Brunswick before turning increasingly to writing.

Armour is known for novels including Lady Rosamond's Secret, The Lily of the Valley, The Eclectic Magazine of Fiction, and The Little Actress. Her work has been noted for its detailed picture of 19th-century New Brunswick society, combining local history, everyday manners, and popular storytelling.

She married John G. Thompson in 1885 and died in Fredericton in 1891. Though not widely known today, she remains an important early Canadian writer whose books preserve a lively sense of her region and era.