Jane Christmas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
22 January 1954
Jane Christmas | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jane Elizabeth Grimshaw 22 January 1954 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Bachelor of Arts |
| Alma mater | Carleton University, Ottawa |
| Period | 1990s–present |
| Notable works | And Then There Were Nuns; What the Psychic told the Pilgrim; Open House: A Life in Thirty Two Moves |
Jane Christmas (born 1954) is a Canadian writer from Hamilton, currently based in the UK,[1] who was twice a nominee for the Stephen Leacock Award.
Christmas was born and raised in Toronto, but spent much of her life in Hamilton, Ontario.[2]
Career
Christmas had a career as a newspaper editor and journalist, and later as a public relations manager in the public sector, before devoting her time exclusively to writing.[1]
She was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 2014 for And Then There Were Nuns,[3] which chronicles a year she spent in various convents while deciding whether to marry for a third time or to take up a vocation as an Anglican nun.;[1] and was long-listed for the same award in 2021 for Open House: A Life in Thirty Two Moves.[4]
She has published five books of what has been categorized as travel writing but of which she prefers to call journey memoir. She was co-author of A Journey Just Begun (2015) with the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine in Toronto.
In 2025, she self-published her first novel A Flight of Saints, using the pseudonym Elizabeth Braithwaite.
Selected publications
- The Pelee Project: One Woman's Escape from Urban Madness (2002)[5]
- What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela (2007)[6]
- Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy (2009)[7]
- And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life (2013)[1]
- Open House: A Life in Thirty-two Moves (2020)[8]
- A Flight of Saints (2025) [9]
