Isabella Whiteford Rogerson

Isabella Whiteford Rogerson (3 January 1835 – 2 February 1905) was a poet who also write under the name Caed Mille Failtha.

Isabella Whiteford Rogerson
BornIsabella Whiteford
3 January 1835
Fair Head, County Antrim, Ireland
Died2 February 1905
St. John's, Newfoundland
Pen nameCaed Mille Failtha; Isabella
OccupationWriter
NationalityIrish, Canadian

Life

Born in County Antrim in 1835 to Alexander Whiteford, a watchmaker, and his wife Isabella Mathers, Rogerson wrote poetry, first published in Belfast in 1860 despite emigrating to Newfoundland with her parents in 1850. Her second volume was published in Canada, in Toronto in 1898. She is one of the early Canadian poets from the frontiers of Newfoundland during the establishment of the colony. Her father built a cottage in Dunluce where Rogerson spent some time.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

She became Isabella Whiteford Rogerson when she married James Johnstone Rogerson in 1879 a local leading politician. She was his second wife. Rogerson had no children of her own but raised his and considered them her family. Her husband was particularly known for his temperance and philanthropic work and Rogerson joined him. They were particularly focusing on educational and housing provisions for the area's poor, unemployed, and imprisoned citizens. Rogerson also worked with the Church Woman's Missionary Society and led Methodist classes. She worked to establish a fisherman and sailors home and an employment agency for out of season workers with her husband. Rogerson died in 1905 and was buried in the Rogerson family vault at the General Protestant Cemetery in St. John's.[2][3][4][5][7]

Selected bibliography
  • POEMS (1860)
  • The Victorian Triumph: And Other Poems (1898). Kessinger Publishing. May 2009. ISBN 978-1-104-55603-7.

References
  1. "Dunluce, 3 Renouf Place, St. John's, NL". www.heritage.nf.ca.
  2. "Rogerson, Isabella Whiteford". SFU Digitized Collections.
  3. "Biography – WHITEFORD, ISABELLA – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
  4. Ramsay Cook; Jean Hamelin (1966). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 1087–. ISBN 978-0-8020-3998-9.
  5. Calvin Hollett (19 February 2010). Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing: The Growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774-1874. MQUP. pp. 280–. ISBN 978-0-7735-8252-1.
  6. Carole Gerson (24 May 2011). Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. pp. 210–. ISBN 978-1-55458-239-6.
  7. "Last will and testament".

Further reading
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