Capel Boake

Capel Boake

Doris Boake Kerr, a writer who published using the pseudonyms 'Capel Boake'[1] and Stephen Grey,[2] was born on 29 August 1889 at Summer Hill, Sydney, and died on 5 June 1944 at Caulfield, Victoria.

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:

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

  1. 1 2 "Kerr, Doris Boake (1889–1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. 2000. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Capel Boake". AustLit. Retrieved 1 April 2015.


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