Wood was born on this date in 1867, in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, North Britain. In 1894 she was praised as "one of Canada's three leading novelists". Her books are The untempered wind (1894), Judith Moore; or, Fashioning a Pipe (1898), A daughter of witches... (1900), Farden Ha' (1901), and Where Waters Beckon (1902). Lesmahagow, incidentally, was also the birthplace of Alexander Muir, who wrote "The Maple Leaf Forever." Source.