Marjorie L. C. Pickthall — a remark

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“Being a poet in the present state of the market is like saying How is your hare-lip today?”

Wry comment on the awkwardness and poor market for verse · Letter to Helena Coleman, 7 December 1908

About Marjorie L. C. Pickthall

Marjorie L. C. Pickthall

14 September 1883–22 April 1922

Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall was born on 14 September 1883 at Gunnersbury, then in Middlesex, England, and died on 22 April 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia. During her lifetime she was among the best-known and most admired poets in Canada, a writer whose delicately fashioned lyrics, religious imagination, and…

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