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Capel Boake


Born
in Melbourne, Australia
August 29, 1889

Died
June 05, 1944

Genre
Fiction


Doris Boake Kerr (29 August 1889 at Summer Hill, Sydney – 5 June 1944 at Caulfield, Victoria), 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, 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).
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Painted clay
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