Background of elizabeth brewster

Canadian poet

For the American Methodist missionary, see Elizabeth Fisher Brewster.

Elizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM SOM (26 August 1922 – 26 December 2012^[1]) was a Canadian poet, author, and academic.^[2]

Biography

Born in the logging village of Chipman, New Brunswick, Brewster was the youngest of Frederick John and Ethel May (Day) Brewster's five children.

The family was of limited means, and although she was a physically frail child with a sporadic early education, Brewster was a keen reader of any material that presented itself, including literary classics and the Eatons catalogue.^[3] Her first poem, submitted by her father and accepted by the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, was published when she was twelve years old.

After she graduated from high school in 1942, Brewster entered the University of New Brunswick on an entrance scholarship. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946, a Master of Arts from Ha