About Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
Lived 1875 – 1928 (aged 52). Isabel Ecclestone Mackay was a Canadian novelist, poet and writer.
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (née MacPherson) (November 25, 1875 – August 15, 1928) was a Canadian novelist and poet.
Biography Born in Woodstock, Ontario, she was the daughter of Donald McLeod MacPherson, an early Scottish settler of Oxford County, and Priscilla Ecclestone of England. She was educated at the Woodstock Collegiate Institute. At the age of 15 she started writing for Canadian newspapers and magazines. From 1890 to 1909 she contributed to the Woodstock Daily Express using the pseudonym "Heather".
Mackay died of cancer on August 15, 1928. She had been sick for a year prior to her death.
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Canadian writer (1875-1928)
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Isabel Ecclestone Mackay was born on 25 November 1875 in Woodstock.
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Isabel Ecclestone Mackay died on 15 August 1928.
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Isabel Ecclestone Mackay was a novelist, poet and writer.
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Isabel Ecclestone Mackay was Canadian.
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