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The Golden Web
"The Golden Web" is a collection of charming and uplifting verse by the beloved writer Wilhelmina Stitch. Known for her unique style of prose-poetry, Stitch explores the small joys and profound lessons found in everyday existence. The poems within this volume weave a tapestry of optimism, offering readers comfort, encouragement, and a renewed perspective on life's challenges.
Each piece is crafted with a gentle touch, reflecting on themes of friendship, nature, and the quiet strength of the human spirit. "The Golden Web" serves as a testament to the enduring power of simple, heartfelt words to brighten the soul. It remains a classic example of early 20th-century inspirational literature, perfect for those seeking a moment of reflection and beauty in a busy world.
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Each piece is crafted with a gentle touch, reflecting on themes of friendship, nature, and the quiet strength of the human spirit. "The Golden Web" serves as a testament to the enduring power of simple, heartfelt words to brighten the soul. It remains a classic example of early 20th-century inspirational literature, perfect for those seeking a moment of reflection and beauty in a busy world.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.
As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Published January 1, 1928
About the author
Wilhelmina Stitch
25 books2 followersWilhemina Stitich is the pseudonym of Ruth Jacobs who was born in November 1888 in Cambridge and was the daughter of Isaiah Woolf Jacobs, a bookseller and accountant and his Polish wife Josephine, nee Hast.
Ruth married a Canadian Elisha Arakie Cohen in 1908 while he was visiting England and she returned with him to Winnipeg where he was a lecturer at the University of Manitoba. They had one son, Ralph, born in 1911 and by the time he was three Ruth Cohen was writing pieces for local papers under the pseudonym of “Sheila Rand”. She was later to comment, 'A local paper [the Winnipeg Tribune] paid me a weekly sum [five dollars], princely it seemed to me then, for supplying it with a woman's page, book reviews, an original page story, usually humorous, and two other features which I called "Rhymes of the Times" and "Mother Goose's Sermons."'
Her husband died in 1919 following a violent influenza epidemic and she was obliged to seek employment to support herself and her son. She, therefore, began work writing advertisements for the T Eaton Company before writing book reviews, editing the women's page and writing short verses as “Wilhelmina Stitch” for the Winnipeg Telegram. Her 'daily "stitch", short verse about the human and homely incidents and feelings of life' became most popular, and she became literary editor of the Western Home Monthly. But it was not easy for as she later recalled, '[Keeping her son at a private school] was a continual struggle and thundering hard work … my days averaging fifteen hours steady brain work. However, being suddenly dependant on myself, turned me from an inconsequential female to an independent woman.'
She remarried in 1923 and, with her Scottish physician husband Frank Lang Collie, she moved to England, where, as Ruth Collie, she settled in London and worked for the Daily Graphic and then the Daily Herald with her "daily stitch" reaching over two million readers every day. Indeed she became such a cultural institution that her daily Fragrant Minute poetry piece was syndicated in various British papers and journals and the Cambridge theatrical productions parodied her.
In the last seven years of her life she regularly made winter visits to Canada and the United States where she gave public lectures and sermons, sometimes one every day over a 50-day tour.
Back in England she moved to Hove, Sussex, and continued writing until her death, after a brief illness, on 6 March 1936 when, a wealthy woman, she left a healthy $35,000 legacy to her son. By the time of her death she had published over 50 books with such titles as Silken Threads, Silver Linings, Catching the Gleam, Joy's Loom and The Fragrant Hour. One obituary described her as 'one of the best-known women writers in the British Empire'. She is buried in Golders Green Crematorium.
Gerry Wolstenholme
April 2015
Footnote: The day of her birth is not necessarily correct as without a day quoted her date of birth disappears, so 5 has been recorded to avoid this happening, for November 1888 is definitely correct.
Ruth married a Canadian Elisha Arakie Cohen in 1908 while he was visiting England and she returned with him to Winnipeg where he was a lecturer at the University of Manitoba. They had one son, Ralph, born in 1911 and by the time he was three Ruth Cohen was writing pieces for local papers under the pseudonym of “Sheila Rand”. She was later to comment, 'A local paper [the Winnipeg Tribune] paid me a weekly sum [five dollars], princely it seemed to me then, for supplying it with a woman's page, book reviews, an original page story, usually humorous, and two other features which I called "Rhymes of the Times" and "Mother Goose's Sermons."'
Her husband died in 1919 following a violent influenza epidemic and she was obliged to seek employment to support herself and her son. She, therefore, began work writing advertisements for the T Eaton Company before writing book reviews, editing the women's page and writing short verses as “Wilhelmina Stitch” for the Winnipeg Telegram. Her 'daily "stitch", short verse about the human and homely incidents and feelings of life' became most popular, and she became literary editor of the Western Home Monthly. But it was not easy for as she later recalled, '[Keeping her son at a private school] was a continual struggle and thundering hard work … my days averaging fifteen hours steady brain work. However, being suddenly dependant on myself, turned me from an inconsequential female to an independent woman.'
She remarried in 1923 and, with her Scottish physician husband Frank Lang Collie, she moved to England, where, as Ruth Collie, she settled in London and worked for the Daily Graphic and then the Daily Herald with her "daily stitch" reaching over two million readers every day. Indeed she became such a cultural institution that her daily Fragrant Minute poetry piece was syndicated in various British papers and journals and the Cambridge theatrical productions parodied her.
In the last seven years of her life she regularly made winter visits to Canada and the United States where she gave public lectures and sermons, sometimes one every day over a 50-day tour.
Back in England she moved to Hove, Sussex, and continued writing until her death, after a brief illness, on 6 March 1936 when, a wealthy woman, she left a healthy $35,000 legacy to her son. By the time of her death she had published over 50 books with such titles as Silken Threads, Silver Linings, Catching the Gleam, Joy's Loom and The Fragrant Hour. One obituary described her as 'one of the best-known women writers in the British Empire'. She is buried in Golders Green Crematorium.
Gerry Wolstenholme
April 2015
Footnote: The day of her birth is not necessarily correct as without a day quoted her date of birth disappears, so 5 has been recorded to avoid this happening, for November 1888 is definitely correct.
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