Stanford Eveleth

Stanford Eveleth was the pen name of Emma Lucy Wells Dickson, a Canadian novelist born in Nova Scotia on November 21, 1854. She spent parts of her childhood in Maine and Prince Edward Island, later returning to Nova Scotia, where she married William John Dickson in 1872 and raised a family.

Her best-known—and apparently only—novel, Miss Dexie: A Romance of the Provinces, was published in Toronto in 1895. Drawing on places and experiences from her own life, the book follows an independent young woman through wartime New England, Halifax, and Prince Edward Island, blending family drama, romance, humor, train travel, and vivid regional detail. Dickson was also credited with writing short stories and children’s material, but she largely disappeared from the literary scene after the 1890s. She remained active in church and charitable work in Halifax before her death in 1926.