Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Pitman, Marie J.

PITMAN, Marie J., author, b. in Hartwick, n. Y., 17 March, 1850; d. in Paris, France, 30 Nov., 1888. She was the daughter of Lucius D. Davis, of the Newport, R. I., “Daily News,” was educated by private tutors, and in 1866 married Theophilus T. Pitman. Her pen-name was “Margery Deane,” and she wrote many children's stories and sketches of travel, was the Newport correspondent of the Boston “Transcript” and other journals, and the author of “Wonder World,” translations (New York, 1878), and “European Breezes” (Boston, 1880).