Women Writers of Early Canada

The first Canadian-born novelist to publish was also a woman: Julia Beckwith
Hart (1796-1867), author of the romance St. Ursula's Convent (1824).

Matthew Beckwith Immigrant of Connecticut>Matthew Beckwith II>James Beckwith>Renald Beckwith>Nehemiah Beckwith>Julia Beckwith married George Henry Hart