author
Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Pickthall
1883–1922
An English-born Canadian poet and fiction writer, she was admired in her lifetime for lyrical verse shaped by nature, faith, and a finely musical style. Her career was brief, but she became one of the most highly regarded Canadian literary voices of the early 20th century.
2 Audiobooks
Dick's Desertion: A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests A Tale of the Early Settlement of Ontario
by Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Pickthall
Angels' Shoes, and Other Stories
by Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Pickthall
About the author
Born in Gunnersbury, England, on September 14, 1883, she moved to Toronto with her family as a child and began publishing while still young. Reliable reference sources describe her as a poet, novelist, and short-story writer whose work quickly won notice in Canadian literary circles.
Her writing career gathered real momentum in the early 1900s. In addition to poems, she published fiction for younger readers and adults, and later worked at Victoria College in Toronto, where she was connected with literary and library work. Sources on her life consistently note that she was celebrated in her day for the grace and polish of her verse, and that her reputation was especially strong in Canadian poetry.
She died in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1922, still only in her thirties. Even with such a short life, Marjorie Pickthall left behind a body of work that helped shape early Canadian literature and continues to interest readers drawn to reflective, beautifully crafted writing.