While Billington celebrates notable women in her profession, including Flora Shaw
and Tasma
, she also notes the popular response to their craft: to the outside world, which really knows very little of how its...
By 24 November 1888: Tasma (Jessie Couvreur), who took her pen-name...
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By 24 November 1888
Tasma (Jessie Couvreur)
, who took her pen-name from her early years in Tasmania, published her first novel, Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3187 (1888): 694
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
By 8 February 1890: A Sydney Sovereign, a collection of stories...
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By 8 February 1890
A Sydney Sovereign, a collection of stories by Tasma
, was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3250 (1890): 176
1892: Tasma (whose real name was Jessie Couvreur,...
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1892
Tasma
(whose real name was Jessie Couvreur
, published her novel A Knight of the White Feather.
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1895: Not Counting the Cost, a novel in which Tasma...
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1895
Not Counting the Cost, a novel in which Tasma
explored issues of culture and nationality, appeared two years before her death.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
1897: Tasma, or Jessie Couvreur, published her...
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1897
Tasma, or Jessie Couvreur
, published her novel Fiery Ordeal in the year of her death.
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