Rebecca Agatha Armour
1845-1891
Rebecca Agatha (Armour) Thompson was born in Fredericton on 25 October 1845. Armour graduated from the Provincial Teachers' College in 1863 and taught in Fredericton and various places throughout New Brunswick. In 1873 she moved to southern New Brunswick, probably to Lancaster (Saint John West) where she began writing. She wrote four novels and many historical sketches, often writing under the name Agatha Armour. She titled the sketches “Old Landmarks of Fredericton” and published them anonymously in the city’s newspaper the Capital. Her novels include Lady Rosamond’s Secret: A Romance of Fredericton (1878) and Marguerite Verne; Or: Scenes from Canadian Life (1886). On Jan 22 1885 she married John G. Thompson, a Fredericton carriage maker. She died of typhoid fever at the age of forty-six on 24 April 1891.
Atwin, Jennifer. “Rebecca Agatha (Armour) Thompson”. New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Winter 2015. https://nble.lib.unb.ca/browse/a/rebecca-agatha-armour-thompson Accessed 5 April 2023.
Predominant New Brunswick Residences:
Fredericton
Frontispiece of Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton, by Rebecca Agatha Armour
"Rebecca Agatha (Armour) Thompson." New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Winter 2015. Accessed 2 June 2023.
See the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia entry.