Discipline: Literature

Evelyn Eaton

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1956, 1957, 1968, 1969
Evelyn Sybil Mary Eaton (1903–1983) was a Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and academic known for her early novels set in New France, and later writings which explored spirituality. She wrote poetry from an early age, publishing the first, "The Interpreter," in 1923. Two novels written in 1938 and 1939 received little notice, but in 1940, the publication of Quietly My Captain Waits, a novel set in Acadia (now Nova Scotia) in the early days of French settlement (New France), brought her commercial success. She became an American citizen in 1945. A series of novels set in New France followed, as did a teaching appointment at Columbia University from 1949–1951, a Visiting Lecturership at Sweet Briar College, Virginia from 1951–1960, and a position as Writer in Residence with the Huntingdon Hartford Foundation in 1960 and 1962.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Evelyn Eaton worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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