Marjorie L. C. Pickthall — a remark

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“To me, the trying part is being a woman at all. I've come to the ultimate conclusion that I'm a misfit of the worst kind, in spite of a superficial femininity.”

Frustration at the clash between daring mind, greed for experience, and convention · Letter to Helen Coleman, 29 December 1919

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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