Early Experiments 1895–1902
Winnifred Eaton’s writing apprenticeship began in Montreal where, as a young girl, she invented “stories and fairy songs.” Eaton exaggerated when she claimed that she was 14 when her first publication, a serialized short story, appeared in Montreal’s Metropolitan (“Poor Devil,” a fragment of which Eaton preserved in her scrapbook). During this early stage of her career, Eaton published short stories, several of which are set in Montreal, and also experimented with journalism. Her experience writing for a Montreal newspaper, she claimed, got her a job as a writer and reporter for the daily Gall’s News Letter in faraway Kingston, Jamaica, for a few months in 1895-6, where she purported to have published pieces signed “Busybody” and “Man on the Street.” Her works for Gall’s News Letter, other than one poem, have yet to be located.
Early Experiments
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“Early Experiments.” The Winnifred Eaton Archive, edited by Mary Chapman and Jean Lee Cole, v. 2.0, 03 February 2024, https://
| Title | Date Published | Transcription Available | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | A Poor Devil | 1894–1895 | Yes |
 | Sneer Not | March 10, 1896 | Yes |
![Thumbnail of the first page of the facsimile for [I am not a new woman].](facsimiles/NotANewWoman1_tiny.jpg) | [I am not a “new woman”] | January 1898 | Yes |
 | Li Ching’s Baby | April 1898 | Yes |
 | A Prayer for Understanding | February 1899 | Yes |
 | Three Loves | January 1901 | Yes |
 | Margot | December 1901 | Yes |
![Thumbnail of the first page of the facsimile for Three Loves [Reprint].](facsimiles/Three_Loves_Ladys_Magazine_tiny.jpg) | Three Loves [Reprint] | July 1902 | Yes |
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Joey Takeda is the Technical Director of The Winnifred Eaton
Archive and a Developer at Simon Fraser University’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab
(DHIL). He is a graduate of the M.A. program in English at the University of
British Columbia where he specialized in Indigenous and diasporic literature,
science and technology studies, and the digital humanities.
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