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Booth, Pithie, Mrs. (fl.1863)
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wrongly recorded name for William Pithy Booth?
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fiction writer, poet
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male?; lived in Aberdeen All sources except Reilly credit "Pithie Booth" or "W. Pithie Booth," not "Mrs. Pithie Booth." Hence "Mrs. Pithie Booth" appears to be an error. The Scottish Censuses for 1871 and 1881 list William (P.) Booth, with the same estimated birth year and place of birth (1821, Aberdeenshire) as William Pithy Booth, same address of "Old Machar," and declare him unmarried (not married or widowed, which is what it should read if he had been married by 1863). See also 1851 and 1861 Scotland Censuses.
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wife of Pithie or Pithy Booth (probably William Pithy Booth (1821?-))?
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- Stonehill, Charles A., Jr. Anonyma and Pseudonyma. London: C. A. Stonehill, Jr., 1927. [multiple volumes]
- Scotland Census 51,61,71,81
- FamilySearch
- Allibone, S. Austin. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors [various editions]
- Carnie, William. Further Aberdeen Reminiscences: Social, Civic and Personal Pencillings of the Grantite City. Vol. 2. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1904, p. 290.
- Halkett & Laing. Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature. [Various editions]
- Cushing, William. Anonyms: Dictionary of Revealed Authorship. Cambridge, USA: William Cushing, 1889.
- Reilly, Catherine. Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879: An Annotated Biobibliography. London: Mansell, 2000.
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• wrote Euphemia and Salem: A Tale An Afternoon's Walk The Pastor's Daughter