Marjorie Ozanne

This article is about the Guernésiais author. For the Salvation Army major and protestor against human rights abuses, see Marie Ozanne.

Marjorie Edith Ozanne (1897–1973)[1] wrote stories and poetry in Guernésiais, published in the Guernsey Evening Press between 1949 and 1965. Some earlier pieces can be found in La Gazette de Guernesey in the 1920s.[2] She is remembered for her Guernsey-French stories and poems, and for starting the first bird hospital in the world, which she continued to run during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.[3][4]

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  2. ^ Sallabank, Julia (December 19, 2013). Attitudes to endangered languages : identities and policies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-1107030619. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  3. ^ Sallabank, Julia (2002). "Writing in an unwritten language: the case of Guernsey French" (PDF). Reading Working Papers in Linguistics. 6: 217–244. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  4. ^ Clark, Tom; Finlay, Emily; Kelly, Philippa (January 19, 2017). Worldmaking : literature, language, culture. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027201324. Retrieved 24 February 2019.