Author: CLARKE, PATRICIA.
Title: Tasma. The life of Jessie Couvreur.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xvi, 213; illustrated title page, numerous b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; original boards, dustjacket, a fine copy. (St Leonards), Allen & Unwin, (1994). Jessie Fraser (nee Huybers) adopted the name Tasma when her first stories were published in 1877 to honour the colony where she spent her childhood. When she began lecturing on Austria in Europe after separating from her first husband, she used the name Madame Jessie Tasma. (Wueen. The Lady's Newspaper, 13 January 1894).

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