Pitt, Marie E.J. (1869–1948)

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Pitt, Marie E.J. (1869–1948)

Australian radical poet, socialist, feminist, ecologist and anarchist. Name variations: Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt. Born 1869 in Bullumwaal, Australia; died 1948; lived with poet Bernard O'Dowd, 1920–48.

Married a miner (1893) and lived in mining communities in Tasmania before moving to Melbourne (1905); was member of Victorian Socialist Party and edited party magazine, The Socialist; an anarchist and ecologist, was also a strong supporter of Unitarian church; works include The Horses of the Hills and Other Verses (1911), Bairnsdale and Other Poems, (1922), The Poems of Marie E.J. Pitt (1928), and Selected Poems (1944).

See also Colleen Burke, Doherty's Corner: The Life and Work of Australian Poet Marie E.J. Pitt (1985).

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