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'Patricia Clancy discusses the life and work of Jesse Catherine Huybers alias Tasma, born 1848 in London who immigrated with her family to Hobart in 1852. Her first marriage to Charles Fraser was an unhappy one and became an important theme in her novels where she contrasted the spendthrift and philandering of Australian men to the sophistication of their European counterparts. After her divorce, she lived in Europe where she married the Belgian politician Auguste Couvreur. Although she never returned to Australia, her novels, which met with some success, are mostly set in the antipodes. After the death of her second husband Tasma took his place as the Brussels correspondent of the London Times until her death in 1897.' (Author's abstract)
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Subjects:
- Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill : An Australian Novel 1888 single work novel
- A Sydney Sovereign 1993 selected work short story
- In Her Earliest Youth 1890 single work novel
- Not Counting the Cost 1895 single work novel
- The Penance of Portia James 1891 single work novel
- The White Feather 1891 single work novel
- Tasma's Diaries : The Diaries of Jessie Couvreur with Another by Her Young Sister Edith Huybers 1995 selected work diary
- A Fiery Ordeal 1897 single work novel
- Malus Oculus 1877 single work short story
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