author
Rebecca Agatha Armour
1845–1891
A Canadian teacher and novelist from New Brunswick, she wrote fiction that brings 19th-century local life vividly into view. Her best-known work, Lady Rosamond's Secret, helped make her one of the province's early women novelists.
2 Audiobooks
Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton
by Rebecca Agatha Armour
Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life
by Rebecca Agatha Armour
About the author
Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on October 25, 1845, she trained as a teacher at the Provincial Teachers' College and taught in Fredericton and other communities in the province. Later, she turned increasingly to writing, drawing on New Brunswick settings, history, and social life.
Her novels include Lady Rosamond's Secret and The King's Ring, and her work is often noted for its detailed picture of 19th-century New Brunswick. She also wrote historical sketches, sometimes under the pen name "Agatha."
She married John G. Thompson in 1885 and died on April 24, 1891, at just 45 years old. Though not widely known today, she remains an important early voice in Canadian and New Brunswick literature.