People Database

Alfred S. Campbell (1840-1912), who immigrated to the United States from England in the late 1860’s, founded the Alfred S. Campbell Art Company in 1871 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The company went on to include reproductions, photographs, and illustrations. In addition to being an entrepreneur, illustrator, and photographer, Campbell also was an inventor and held numerous patents, which included inventing a panoramic lens and patenting a method for photography printing on platinum.

Ambrose Faturoti is Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice for Student Life at Hawken School. He has a M.A. in English Literature and American Studies from University of Virginia. He assisted in the development of the original Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive created by Jean Lee Cole.

Axel Kong is a contributor to this project.

Ami Kogiso received a B.A. in English Language and Literatures from the University of British Columbia in 2022.

Amanda Law is a Master’s student in the department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.

Arlie completed his B.A in English Literature at University of British Columbia in 2022.

English undergrad student at U Calgary and Arts, Culture and Science Editor at the U of C’s independent newspaper The Gauntlet.

Canadian poet.

Charles Allan Gilbert (1873 - 1929) was a prolific, talented, American illustrator, animator, and artist best known for his 1892 illusionist drawing All is Vanity. Gilbert studied at the Art Students’ League in New York and Academie Julian in Paris before opening a studio in New York. Gilbert created illustrations for advertisements, magazines (including The Saturday Evening Post, Scribner’s, and Harper’s), calendars, and novels (including Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence). Gilbert is credited as the inventor of cartoons for the screen. He also designed posters in the First World War and worked as a camouflage artist for the US. Shipping Board during this time.

Camille Lopez completed an M.A. in English Literature at University of British Columbia. Her research interests lie primarily in critical race studies and the early modern English theatre.

Capel Rowley (1862-1935) was a Chicago-based artist and writer. He illustrated Margaret Homes Bates’ 1894 love story Shylock’s Daughter as well as Grace Wilbur’s 1895 novel A Mormon’s Wife. Rowley also wrote short stories, such as “Corralled by Fire” (1893) for The Los Angeles Times and “Trapper Tom’s Robber” for the Philadelphia Inquirer in the same year.

Cynthia Stockley (1873-1936), born Lillian Julian Webb, was a South African-Rhodesian novelist, journalist, and actress. She was born in Orange Free State in Southern Africa. Her parents were Irish and English, and she moved to England where she later died. She is the author of The Claw which was re-adapted for screen by Winnifred Reeve and released in 1927. The Claw was previously turned into a film in 1918. Six of her books were turned into films: Poppy (1917), The Claw (1918), Wild Honey (1922), Ponjola (1923), and The Claw (1927).

Clara Kimball Young (1890-1960) was a popular American actress and producer of the early silent film era. She was a prominent film star of Vitagraph Studios and later of World Film Corporation, but many of her films with Vitagraph are now lost. After a highly publicized affair with producer Lewis J. Selznick which resulted in her divorce from director James Young, Young and Selznick formed the Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation in 1916 of which she acted as the vice president and Selznick the president. She was the second film actress to create a namesake production company. After their romantic and professional relationship failed, Young created her own namesake production company, C.K.Y. Film Corporation, which operated from 1917-1919. She produced the 1918 film adaptation of “The Claw” by Cynthia Stockley as adapted by Winnifred Eaton Reeve. She quit producing in 1919 but continued to act until 1941.

Delaney Anderson is a current Masters student studying English Literature at the University of British Columbia.

Diana Birchall is the author of Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton and the granddaughter of Winnifred Eaton. She is a collaborator on this project.

Daisy Couture has a B.A. in English Literature and Psychology from the University of British Columbia and was a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive.

Donna Campbell is a professor of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature at Washington State University.

Canadian novelist.

Dominika Ferens teaches American literature at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (1999) and a post-doctoral degree from the University of Wrocław (2011). Her research interests include Asian American literature, affect theory, critical race studies, gender and queer studies, and the intersections of literature and ethnography.

Ethan Xi Hao Eu is a PhD student in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.

Ethan Gruber is the Director of Data Science at the American Numismatic Society and has an M.A. in Art and Architectural History from University of Virginia. He assisted in the development of the original Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive created by Jean Lee Cole.

Elizabeth Rooney is the co-editor of “A Half Caste” and Other Writings and the great-granddaughter of Winnifred Eaton through her daughter Doris Babcock Rooney. Elizabeth has a BA from U of Toronto and a DipLIT from Seneca College and has been involved in Eaton family research for many years.

Frédérique Rosine de Grésac (1866 - 1943) was a French librettist, lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter. She wrote under the male-sounding name Fred de Gresac.

Fong Ku participated in the transcribe-a-thon for the 2023 conference: Onoto Watanna’s Cattle at 100.

Greg Murray is the Director of Digital Initiatives at Princeton Theological and has a MA in Literature and Religion from University of Virginia. He assisted in the development of the original Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive created by Jean Lee Cole.

Hilary Ball is a graduate of the M.A. program in English at the University of British Columbia and was a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive.

Harriet “Hattie” Green was born in 2012 and is the daughter of Lily Cho. She loves reading and animating.

Huckleberry completed a BA in Enlish Literature at the University of British Columbia at the end of 2021.

Heidi Rennert is a Ph.D. candidate in English and Science and Technology Studies at the University of British Columbia and a former research assistant of The Winnifred Eaton Archive. She is writing a dissertation on the intersections of science, technology, and domesticity in Victorian literature.

Isobel Gibson is a B.A. Honours student majoring in History at Queen’s University. Isobel’s work as a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive intersects with her passions for art history as well as research.

John Ivor Carlson is the Digital Production Editor at Yale University Press and has a PhD in Medieval Literature from University of Virginia. He assisted in the development of the original Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive created by Jean Lee Cole.

John Clithero Gilbert (?-1905) was a Chicago-based illustrator best known for illustrating Harold Bell Wright’s 1902 novel The Printer of Udell’s and William Hawley Smith’s 1904 science fiction novel The Promoters: A Novel Without a Woman.

Jennifer Harris is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is a collaborator on The Winnifred Eaton Archive.

Jennifer Irving is a graduate of the UCL English department.

Jean Lee Cole is Senior Consultant on The Winnifred Eaton Archive, author of The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (2002), co-editor of A Japanese Nightingale and Madame Butterfly: Two Orientalist Texts (2002, with Maureen Honey), and editor of the original Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive (2004). She is Professor of English at Loyola University Maryland.

Jennifer McDougall is an MA English and Creative Writing student at the University of Calgary.

Jolie Sheffer is Associate Professor in English and American Culture Studies and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society at Bowling Green State University. She was a research assistant on the original Winnfired Eaton Digital Archive created by Jean Lee Cole.

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.

Jordan Taylor is a teacher of Upper School Humanities, advisor, and UPenn Mentor at St. Anne’s-Belfield School. He has a M.A. in English Literature from University of Virginia. He assisted in the development of the original Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive created by Jean Lee Cole.

Jason completed a University of British Columbia English major in 2022.

Ken Ip is a graduate of the M.A. program in English at the University of British Columbia and was a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive. During this time, his research interests were focused towards digital humanities and Indigenous literatures. During his time with the project, he contributed mainly as a transcriber and encoder for several of Eaton’s works. He is currently working with the International Society of Cell and Gene Therapy as Coordinator, Training and Education.

Kali Longpre is from Vancouver, BC. She majored in English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (BA 2022). She plans to continue her endeavours in writing for the future.

Katie Qin has a BA (Honours) in History from the University of Calgary.

Karen E. H. Skinazi is the Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol. She writes about women’s literature and republished Winnifred’s 1916 novel Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model with a long introduction situating the text in a history of passing narratives (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012). She is a collaborator on The Winnifred Eaton Archive.

Kai Schofield-Lewis will complete a BA in English Literature in 2023.

Kai Schofield-Lewis will complete a BA in English Literature in 2023

Koby Song-Nichols is a PhD student in History at University of Toronto.

Karen Tam is an artist and curator whose research focusses on the constructions and imaginations of cultures and communities.

Louis Betts (1873-1961), born in Little Rock, Arkansas, was a renowned and decorated American portrait painter particularly active in the Chicago and New York City art scenes. Beginning his career as an illustrator, he completed work for Charles Eugene Banks in his book Child of the Sun, in addition to his illustrations for several of Onoto Watanna’s works. Louis Betts’ honours included a $5,000 Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts prize and a $3,000 travelling scholarship awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for travel in Europe.

Lucia Maggio graduated in Japanese Studies at the University of Hokkaido and was a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive.

Larry Trimble (1885-1954) was an American writer, director, and actor. In her screenplay Rose Marie, Winnifred Eaton Reeve writes that she met him “about three years” before the screenplay at the annual Banff winter carnival, so in approximately Winter 1924.

Leean is an Honours English language and literature student at the University of British Columbia and a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive. She was an undergraduate teaching assistant for the UBC Coordinated Arts Program for two years and a research assistant for the UBC Public Humanities Hub.

Mary Chapman is the Director of The Winnifred Eaton Archive, a Professor of English, and Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub at University of British Columbia. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism (Oxford UP) and of numerous articles about American literature and women writers. She has also edited Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton (McGill-Queen’s UP) and published essays on the Eaton sisters in American Quarterly, MELUS, Legacy, Canadian Literature, and American Periodicals. Her current research project is a microhistory of the Eaton family. For more information, see http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/mchapman/.

Meghna is an MA English student at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests lie in graphic literatures, queer studies and diaspora studies.

Margaret Fernie Eaton (1871-1953?) worked primarily in pyrography and watercolor. She was born in England but immigrated to the United States in 1905, settling in Brooklyn, New York, for the majority of her career. Eaton studied at the Adelphi Academy and won several prizes for her work there. In Spring 1895, Eaton spent four months in Brockville, Canada, at a camp with friends where she completed a number of pieces, highlighted in an extensive interview in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Eaton became a member of the New York Watercolor Club; additionally, her work with pyrography advanced the style in the early 1900’s.

Matthew Gibson is the Executive Director at Virginia Humanities. He has a Ph.D. in English Literature from University of Virginia. He assisted in the development of the original Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive created by Jean Lee Cole.

This anonymous volunteer was in a UBC ENGL 2021 class.

Nazua Idris is a PhD student in Literary Studies in the Department of English, Washington State University. Her research interest involves exploration of the intersections of 19th and early 20th century transatlantic literature, textual studies, postcolonial and decolonial digital humanities, and digital and decolonial pedagogies.

Paul Birchall is one of Winnifred Eaton’s great-grandchildren, descended from Paul Reeve. He’s also the library manager for LA County Library’s branch on Catalina Island, has a BA in history from the University of Chicago and an MLIS from the University of North Texas.

Pavlina Pajot completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of British Columbia and was a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive.

Ray Zhu received an undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature from the University of British Columbia in 2022.

Samantha Bowen completed an Honours English student at the University of British Columbia and was a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive.

Samantha Bowen is an Honours English student at the University of British Columbia and was a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive.

Sijia Cheng completed an MA student in English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia and was a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive. Her research focuses primarily on Asian Canadian literature and queer theory.

Sijia Cheng is an MA student in English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia and a research assistant for The Winnifred Eaton Archive. Her research focuses primarily on Asian Canadian literature and queer theory.

Shoshannah Ganz is associate professor of English at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada.

Shaun Hunter is the author of Calgary through the Eyes of Writers (Rocky Mountain Books, 2018) and consultant for an exhibition of the same name, featuring Winnifred Eaton, at the Lougheed House in Calgary. She is a collaborator on The Winnifred Eaton Archive

Sydney Lines is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of British Columbia and Project Manager of The Winnifred Eaton Archive. She is writing a dissertation on Winnifred Eaton and Laura Goodman Salverson.

Serina Patterson has a Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia. She is a web designer and designed The Winnifred Eaton Archive website.

Seth is a contributor to the Winnifred Eaton Archive and graduated with a BA in English from the University of British Columbia in 2022.

Spencer Tricker is Assistant Professor of English at Clark University.

Thomas Playfair is a graduate of the Master’s Program in English at University of British Columbia.

Canadian author.

See the Biographical Timeline for biographical information on Winnifred Eaton.

Canadian poet.

Xara Zabihi Dutton recently graduated from a Bachelors degree in English Literature at University College London. In the near future Xara hopes to combine research interests in material culture studies, aesthetics and critical race theory within Kurdish Studies.

Christine “Xine” Yao is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at University College London. Her first book Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America is under contract with Duke University Press. She advised on The Winnifred Eaton Archive

Yuki Matsumoto teaches literature at Kindai University in Japan.