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:
- 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, in 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.
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