Marie Joussaye (1864 in
Belleville – 24 March 1949 in
Vancouver
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) was a Canadian poet.
Life
Marie Josie was born at and grew up in
Belleville Canada West
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.
She was a newspaper journalist in
Toronto
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.
In 1893, she was president of the Working Girls' Union.
She moved to
Dawson City, Yukon
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In November 1903, she married David Heatherington Fotheringham, a
Northwest Mounted Policeman.
They had financial difficulties.
In 1924, she moved to
Mayo, Yukon
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.
In 1929, she moved to
Vancouver
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, where she died in a rooming house on 24 March 1949.
Works
* ''The Songs that Quinte Sang'' (1895)
* ''Selections from Anglo-Saxon Songs'' (1918)
References
Sources
*Carole Gerson, "Only a Working Girl: The Story of Marie Joussaye Fotheringham," ''Northern Review'' 19 (Winter 1998)
1864 births
1949 deaths
Canadian women poets
19th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian women writers
19th-century Canadian women writers
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