About Marguerite Helen Power
Lived 1870 – 1957 (aged 86–87). Marguerite Helen Power was an Australian poet.
Marguerite Helen Power (6 January 1870 – 27 November 1957) was an Australian poet.
Biography Power was born on 6 January 1870 at Mount Joy (now known as Balvaird), on the outskirts of Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia. She was named for her great aunt, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington. On her paternal side, she was the granddaughter of the British Army officer Surveyor General of Tasmania, Robert Power, who was born in Ireland.
Power grew up in Campbell Town, receiving little formal education, but learned to read in her fathers library and studied the French and Italian languages as a teenager.
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(1870-1957) poet
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Marguerite Helen Power was born on 6 January 1870 in Campbell Town.
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Marguerite Helen Power died in 1957 in South Hobart.
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Marguerite Helen Power was a poet.
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