Ethel Rolt Wheeler

Ethel Rolt Wheeler (pen name Rolt Wheeler; 12 July 1869, Lewisham, London – October 1958, Glasgow) was an English poet, author and journalist.

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.

[3] 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.

[4] She was a prolific author and contributed to many journals including Dome, The Theosophical Review,[5] East and West, The Atlantic Monthly, The London Magazine, Irish Book Lover, Harper's Magazine,[6] The Butterfly,[7] The Anglo-Saxon Review[8] and Great Thought[8] as well as working for and contributing work to The Academy.

[3] She also wrote in support of the suffragette movement in articles such as Fair Ladies in Revolt in The Englishwoman's Review[9] In 1915, she is recorded as living at 59, Stradella Road, Herne Hill.