Anne Elizabeth Wilson

Following a lengthy illness, Anne Elizabeth Wilson Blochin died at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, October 17, 1946. Interment was in Aurora Cemetery. Archival holdings are held by the Acadia University, Library and Archives Canada, McMaster University, and University of Toronto.

On July 6, 1929, at St. Thomas, Ontario, she married Victor Paulovich Blochin (c. 1890- 1978), of Aurora, Ontario, a Russian barrister, and former lieutenant in the Imperial Russian Grenadier Artillery.

Even from early childhood, Wilson seems to have had a literary bent, taking a prize for a short story in McCall's when she was only ten years old. In her early teens, she studied seriously for the stage, but delicate health obliged her to forego that career. She then turned her attention to literary work. Her poems and stories appeared in the well-known literary magazines of both countries. In the fall of 1924, her first book of poems, Eager Footsteps, appeared in Canada, the United States and England. For the greater part, Eager Footsteps was a reprint of poems contributed by Wilson from time to time to various newspapers. There was nothing distinctively Canadian in any of her verse; her poems were a criticism of life. Of the book Dr. John Daniel Logan remarked:— "On the whole, or even through and through, Eager Footsteps is rare psychology, rare art and rare beauty—a wholly novel and lovely contribution to modern poetry."

In 1924, Wilson wrote a lyric set to music by her aunt, Jacqueline Hoyt, to be introduced to a convention of dancing masters in New York, in the hope that a brand new dance step would evolve, based on an old triplet caprice.

Anne Elizabeth Wilson (after marriage, Blochin; November 28, 1901 – October 17, 1946) was a 20th-century American-born Canadian writer of poetry and short stories, which appeared in Canada, England, and the United States. She was also a magazine and book editor. Wilson and her husband, Victor Blochin resided at Silverdale Farm, south of Aurora, Ontario, where their "Happy Woodland" pet cemetery, opened in 1934, was believed to be the first of its kind in Canada. Wilson died in 1946.

Anne Elizabeth Wilson was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, November 28, 1901. She was the daughter of Robert Burns Wilson, a poet-painter of Virginia and Kentucky, and Anne (Hendrick) Wilson, a concert singer, and daughter of General William Jackson Hendrick, a former Attorney General of Kentucky. The family removed from Kentucky to New York in 1904. She was a granddaughter of William Jackson Hendrick, former Attorney General of Kentucky, and was a second cousin of Thomas Nelson Page.