Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Marguerite Helen Power
Parallel form(s) of name
- Helen Power
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Description area
Dates of existence
1870-1957
History
Tasmanian poet, Helen Power was born in Campbell Town, daughter of Thomas Power, who was council clerk of Campbell Town. Helen started writing at an early age and enjoyed reading and translating French poetry. She held adult literary classes, or "literary talks" on contemporary modern writers from 1912-1943 and later joined a poetry reading group in Hobart. She published verses and prose sketches in the Bulletin, Australasian, etc. and had a book Poems privately printed in 1922. In 1956 Clive Sansom read two of her earlier poems at a recital of recent Australian verse and in November 1957 he asked for and was granted permission to collect her poems and have them published. For more information see http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/power-marguerite-helen-8091