Marie Pitt

Marie Pitt
Pitt circa 1924
Born
Marie Elizabeth Josephine McKeown

(1869-08-06)6 August 1869
Bullumwaal, Victoria
Died20 May 1948(1948-05-20) (aged 78)
Kew, Victoria, Australia
Other namesMarie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt
Occupations
  • Activist
  • journalist
  • poet
Political partyVictorian Socialist Party
PartnerBernard O'Dowd

Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist, also journalist and Unitarian. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, once much anthologised; and also wrote poetry in support of the socialist and labour movements. Marie Pitt was the companion of fellow poet and socialist Bernard O'Dowd.

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