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Rozelle V. Myers-Funnell
A late-19th-century poet whose surviving record is faint today, she is best remembered for a small 1897 collection that gathers reflective, patriotic, and nature-centered verse. Her work carries the intimate feel of a private voice shared with the public.
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A "booklet of verse"
by Rozelle V. Myers-Funnell
About the author
Little is firmly documented about this writer beyond the traces left by her publications and historical records. Project Gutenberg and Archive.org both preserve A "booklet of verse", published in Ottawa in 1897, and the book itself identifies her as Rozelle V. Myers-Funnell, M.D.
The collection was issued as a "jubilee offering" and dedicated to the Countess of Aberdeen, placing it in the cultural world of late-Victorian Canada. Its poems range across friendship, faith, memory, patriotism, and the natural world, suggesting a writer interested in both inward feeling and public occasion.
A Find a Grave memorial associated with her name lists dates of 1852 to 1913, but detailed biographical sources are scarce, so much of her life remains uncertain. What can be said with confidence is that she left behind a compact but distinctive volume of verse that has remained available through public-domain archives.