Introduction

Biography

Yule’s fa­mi­ly moved to Up­per Ca­na­da while she was a child.

She gra­du­at­ed from Al­bi­on Col­lege in Mi­chi­gan, and taught there three years. In 1860, she ac­cept­ed a po­si­tion teach­ing art, li­te­ra­ture and Eng­lish at the Ca­na­di­an Li­ter­ary In­sti­tute in Wood­stock.

She lat­er mar­ried James Yule, and they lived in York Mills (To­ron­to), and later in Wood­stock. After her hus­band died in 1876, she lived in Brant­ford, and lat­er In­ger­soll. In ad­di­tion to ar­ti­cles con­trib­ut­ed to the Ca­na­di­an Mis­sion­ary Link, her works in­clude:

Works

• Ada Emo­ry (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Am­eri­can Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­ci­ety, 1871)
• Records of a Van­ished Life: Lec­tures, Ad­dress­es, Etc., of James Col­ton Yule, M.A., Late Pro­fes­sor of New Tes­ta­ment In­ter­pre­ta­tion and Evi­denc­es, in the Ca­na­di­an Li­ter­ary In­sti­tute (To­ron­to, Ca­na­da: Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion Com­pa­ny, 1876)
• Poems of the Heart and Home (To­ron­to, Ca­na­da: Ben­gough, Moore, 1881)
• Paul Su­ther­land’s Pro­gress (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Am­eri­can Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­ci­ety, 1887)
• Sowing and Reap­ing (To­ron­to, Ca­na­da: Will­iam Briggs, 1889)