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Marie Joussaye

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Marie Joussaye
BornMarie Josie
1864
Belleville, Canada West
Died1949
Vancouver
Occupationjournalist
NationalityCanadian
Genrepoetry
SpouseDavid Heatherington Fotheringham

Marie Joussaye (1864 in Belleville – 24 March 1949 in Vancouver) was a Canadian poet.

Life

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Marie Josie was born at and grew up in Belleville Canada West. She was a newspaper journalist in Toronto. In 1893, she was president of the Working Girls' Union.[1] She moved to Dawson City, Yukon. In November 1903, she married David Heatherington Fotheringham, a Northwest Mounted Policeman. They had financial difficulties. In 1924, she moved to Mayo, Yukon. In 1929, she moved to Vancouver, where she died in a rooming house[2] on 24 March 1949.[3]

Works

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  • The Songs that Quinte Sang (1895)
  • Selections from Anglo-Saxon Songs (1918)

References

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  1. ^ Gregory S. Kealey (1991). Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867-1892. University of Toronto Press. pp. 383–. ISBN 978-0-8020-6883-5.
  2. ^ Rodger J. Moran (September 18, 2011). "Marie Joussaye Fotheringham". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  3. ^ Moran, Rodger J. "Marie Joussaye Fotheringham". Retrieved 2016-06-29.

Sources

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  • Carole Gerson, "Only a Working Girl: The Story of Marie Joussaye Fotheringham," Northern Review 19 (Winter 1998)