Ethel Rolt Wheeler was an English poet, author and journalist.
Background
Ethel Rolt Wheeler was born Mary Ethel Wheeler, the daughter of the stone merchant Joseph Wheeler, and Amina Cooke Taylor, both of whom were of Irish descent. She was the granddaughter of the Cork shipbuilder Joseph Wheeler on her paternal side and author and anti-Corn law propagandist, William Cooke Taylor on her maternal side.
Career
She was a prolific author and contributed to many journals including Dome, The Theosophical Review, East and West, Atlantic Monthly, London, Irish Book Lover, Harper"s Magazine, The Butterfly, The Anglo-Saxon Review and Great Thought as well as working for and contributing work to The Academy. She also wrote in support of the suffragette movement in articles such as Fair Ladies in Revolt in Englishwoman"s Review
In 1915 she is recorded as living at 59, Stradella Road, Herne Hill.
Membership
In the 1890s she became a committee member of the Irish Literary Society of London and chair of the Irish Circle of the Lyceum Club.