Name	Wilson, Ethel
Alternative Names
ID	506
Gender	female
Lifespan	1888-01-20 - 1980-12-22
Professions	writer (Q36180), novelist (Q6625963)

Collection(s)	Default import collection Transatlantic Networks webclient
Uri(s)	https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_166
Notes	In 1930, Ethel Wilson and her husband spent a few months in Vienna where they enjoyed the vibrant cultural and musical scene. In the summer of 1938, just months after the Anschluss, the couple visited Europe due to Wallace Wilson's visits to conferences in Skandinavia. Among other places, they also visited London, where Wilson learned of the terrible events in Austria during that time. "Her diary entries in the journal from July and August 1938 also mirror growing anxieties resulting from German military maneuvers, and forebodings of worse things to come." These impressions informed the unpublished poem "Vienna, Spring, 1938" and also found entry into her novel "We Have to Sit Opposite" (see Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, pp. 249).
References	Wilson's papers are archived at the Ethel Wilson Collection in Special Collections at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.