Capel Boake
Doris Boake Kerr (29 August 1889 at Summer Hill, Sydney – 5 June 1944 at Caulfield, Victoria) was a writer who published using the pseudonyms Capel Boake[1] and Stephen Grey.[2] Her publishing career began with a story appearing in the Australasian in January 1916. Other stories and stories appeared in the Victorian School Paper. She wrote four novels:
- Painted Clay (Melbourne, 1917, published by the Australasian Authors' Agency and reprinted by Virago London in 1986);
- The Romany Mark (New South Wales Bookstall Co, 1923);
- The Dark Thread (Hutchinson London, 1936); and
- The Twig is Bent, written with the aid of a Commonwealth literary grant but published posthumously (Sydney, 1946).
Her subject mater included the options available to women in the early twentieth century, circus life, and early Melbourne history.[1]
She used the pseudonym Stephen Grey when writing in collaboration with Bernard Cronin.[2]
Capel Boake was also a poet: a collection of her verse was published posthumously in 1949 as The Selected Poems of Capel Boake.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Kerr, Doris Boake (1889–1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. 2000. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Capel Boake". AustLit. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
Categories:
- 20th-century Australian novelists
- Australian women novelists
- 1889 births
- 1944 deaths
- 20th-century Australian poets
- 20th-century Australian women writers
- Pseudonymous women writers
- 19th-century Australian women
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- Australian writer stubs