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Woman of the Century — Emily Julian McManus (1893)

“ McMANUS, Miss Emily Julian, poet, born in Bath, Ont., 30th December. 1865. She is of Irish extraction on both her father's and mother's side. She grew up an imaginative child, fond of the companionship of books, especially books of poetry. Her father, a man of scholarly tastes, encouraged the love of literature in his daughter. EMILY JULIAN McMANUS. Miss McManus obtained her early education in the public school of her native town, and later in the Kingston Collegiate Institute and in the Ottawa Normal School In the latter she was fitted to lie a public-school teacher. ”
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