P. K. Page

Patricia Kathleen Page (1916-2010), born in Swanage in England, the daughter of a cavalry officer whose family settled in 1919 in Red Deer, Alberta, went to school in Winnipeg and Calgary. A shop assistant, office worker and researcher in Montreal, then a scriptwriter at the National Film Board, she belonged in the forties to the group around the magazine Preview, with Patrick Anderson and F. R. Scott. Wife of the journalist turned diplomat William Arthur Irwin, she followed him to Australia, to Brazil, where she began to paint under the name P. K. Irwin, then to Mexico. Settled in Victoria in 1964, she died there.

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• PoetryThe Metal and the FlowerP. K. Page · 1954Literature