Marjorie Pickthall

Marjorie Pickthall (1883-1922), born in Gunnersbury near London, emigrated as a child with her parents to Toronto. Of frail health, published very early in newspapers, she worked from 1910 as an assistant librarian at Victoria College. Returned to England in 1912, during the war she trained in mechanics without obtaining a post as a driver, worked on the land, then joined the London meteorological service, in its library. Back in Canada in 1920 and settled on Vancouver Island, she died at thirty-eight, of an embolism after an operation.

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• PoetryThe Lamp of Poor Souls, and Other PoemsMarjorie Pickthall · 1916LiteraturePublic domain