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Esther Clark Wright
1895-1990

Esther Isabelle (Clark) Wright was born 4 May 1895 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Wright attended Charlotte Street School until grade nine, when she transferred to Fredericton High School. Following her graduation in 1912, she went on to study economics at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. After her undergraduate study at Acadia, she studied at the University of Toronto and then at Oxford. It was on the journey back to Fredericton from Oxford that she met her future husband, Conrad Payling Wright.  They married in 1924, on the family farm outside of Fredericton. After marriage, Esther Clark Wright moved to California where her husband was studying at Stanford University.  She then studied at Radcliffe (Harvard University), where she graduated with a PhD in economics in 1931.  Her works include The Loyalists of New Brunswick (1955), Blomidon Rose (1957), and Samphire Greens (1961). Her last book was Back a Long Way (1986).  In her later years she lived in Wolfville. She died at the age of ninety-five on 17 June 1990. Her husband accepted her posthumous award of the Order of Canada for her research.  She also received honorary degrees from Acadia, the University of New Brunswick, and Dalhousie University.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Fredericton

Archival Material

There is correspondence with Esther Clark Wright in the New Brunswick Museum. History Department Records at the New Brunswick Museum in addition to the papers listed below.

Headshot of Esther Clark Wright

Profile shot of Esther Clark Wright

Credit

Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections, UNB Libraries, UA PR, Series: 2, Sub-series: 2D - K, File: 458, ca. 1984. Accessed 2 May 2023.

See the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia entry.

Bibliography Items

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Wright, Esther C. Alexander Clark, loyalist : a contribution to the history of New Brunswick. Kentville, NS: Kentville Pub. Co., 1940, 81 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project

Wright, Esther C. "The Founding of the Baptist Churches in New Brunswick." Tidings [by Atlantic Baptist Women?], vol. 70, 1944, 6-8. [ journal article ]
Collection(s): Religion

Wright, Esther C. The Saint John River. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1949, 254 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project

Wright, Esther C. The loyalists of New Brunswick. Wolfville, NS: E.C. Wright, 1955, 364 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project

Wright, Esther C. Grandmother's child : the life of Harriet H.R. Clark. Wolfville, NS, 1959, 110 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project

Wright, Esther C. Samphire greens; the story of the Steeves. Kingsport, NS, 1961, 94 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project

Wright, Esther C. The Steeves descendants. Wolfville, NS, 1965, 923 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project

Wright, Esther C. The St. John River and its tributaries. Wolfville, NS, 1966, 218 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project

Wright, Esther C. People and places. I, New Brunswick. Wolfville, NS, 1973, 132 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project

Wright, Esther C. Saint John ships and their builders. Wolfville, NS: E.C. Wright, 1976, 229 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): NB Authors' Archival Papers project