Marjorie Pickthall

Marjorie Pickthall

Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (born September 14, 1882 in Gunnersby , † April 19, 1922 in Vancouver ) was an English-Canadian writer.

Pickthall came to Canada with her family in 1889 and attended St. Mildred's Girls' School and the Bishop Strachan School for Girls in Toronto . Once finished, she worked as a library assistant at the Victoria College of the University of Toronto . In 1898 her first work, Two Ears , was published in the Toronto Globe magazine. Between 1905 and 1908 she published three novels - Dick's Desertion: A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests; A Tale of the Early Settlement of Ontario (1905), The Straight Road (1906) and Billy's Hero; or, The Valley of Gold (1908) - which appeared as serialized novels and in book form with illustrations by Charles William Jefferys .

Her mother's death in 1910 interrupted her literary work and in 1912 she returned to England. There she wrote three works: her first volume of poetry, The Drift of Pinions (1913), the historical novel Little Hearts (1915) and The Lamp of Poor Souls, and Other Poems (1916), an expanded and revised version of her first collection of poems. During World War I she worked as an ambulance driver, in agriculture and in the library of the Meteorological Office in South Kensington.

After the war, Pickthall went back to Canada and bought a house on Vancouver Island in 1920. There the novel The Bridge: A Story of the Great Lakes was written . The books of poetry The Wood Carver's Wife and Later Poems (1922), Little Songs (1925) and The Naiad and Five Other Poems (1931) were published posthumously . Her father published two editions of her collected poems (1925 and 1932). In Angels' Shoes and Other Stories (1923), a selection of her was presented more than 200 short stories.

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• Marjorie Pickthall ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography - Pickthall, Marjorie Lowry Christie
• Poetry Foundation - Marjorie Pickthall