Born Ellen Kyle in 1815 to Christopher Kyle and an Anglican family in
Ireland. Noel emigrated to
Ontario, Canada, settling in
Kingston where she met John le Vavasour Noel and they married in 1833. Noel ran a seminary for women in
Savannah, Georgia, in the
United States from about 1836 to 1847. While in the US the family name changed slightly to Vavasour. The couple returned to Kingston in 1847. They had seven children, one of whom, also Ellen, was also a writer. Noel wrote stories and serialized novels in periodicals based in Montreal and Toronto using the name
Mrs JV Noel. Her work appeared in the
Canadian Illustrated News and the
Saturday Reader. Noel died of liver cancer in 1873. ==Bibliography==