| 词条 | Cynthia Stockley |
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| name = Cynthia Stockley | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Lilian Julian Webb | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1873|07|07}} | birth_place = Bloemfontein South Africa | death_date = {{death date and age|1936|01|15|1873|07|07|df=yes}} | death_place = London England | residence = | language = | nationality = | other_names = | notableworks = {{hlist|Poppy the Story of a South African Girl|Ponjola}} | education = St. Michael's School, Bloemfontein | employer = | occupation = Writer | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = {{hlist|Philip Stockley|Joesph Byrne|Harold Pelham Browne}} | children = {{hlist|Dorothy| Patrick}} | relatives = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} Cynthia Stockley (7 July 1873 - 15 January 1936) was a best-selling novelist in Britain, America, and Australia known for her romance novels usually set in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa. BiographyBorn in Bloemfontein, South Africa,[1] the fifth of 6 children.[2] Her mother, Mary Ann Webb (Corbett) emigrated from Co. Clare Ireland aged 18 in 1859 pp168–169[3] whilst her father, Abel Arthur Webb, arrived from Northamptonshire England aged 23 in 1861 pp14.[4] Her mother died when Cynthia was 2. Her father subsequently remarried and Cynthia then lived with her 4 remaining siblings (one died in infancy), her step-mother, a half-sister and 2 half-brothers. After attending St. Michael's School, Bloemfontein she moved to live with her sister in Mashonaland. In 1895 she married[5] Philip Stockley (1870-1917), a member of the Mashonaland Mounted Police, in Salisbury (now Harare). They moved to Umtali (now Mutare) where her daughter Dorothy was born in 1896. The Stockleys separated later in 1896: she to take up a career in journalism and writing, he to participate in the Boer War. Thinking Philip had been killed in the Boer War, she remarried. Her husband was Joseph Byrne (1870-1945), an Irish doctor in New York; their son Patrick was born there in 1905 pp99.[4] She also worked as an actress and bought a farm in Rhodesia and a house in Norfolk. In 1916 married Harold Pelham Browne (1880 -1939), an officer in the British army serving in Paris pp288.[4] Stockley died in London in January 1936, having gassed herself in her apartment. Her death was reported in newspapers around the world. The coroner returned a verdict of death by gas poisoning ‘whilst of unsound mind’.[6] She is buried in Sheringham, Norfolk. NovelsHer 16 books included:
FilmsWith the advent of silent film several of her books were made into films:
Further reading
| last = McLoughlin | first = Tim and Betty | title = Veld Girl: Cynthia Stockley - A life recreated | url = http://elementa-selection.com/project/veld-girl-cynthia-stockley-a-recreated-life-by-tim-and-betty-mcloughlin/ | publisher = Elementa | year = 2015 | location = Sweden | isbn = 9176370127}} References1. ^Sacred Heart Cathedral in Bloemfontein Baptismal records 1850-1890 record 501 p49 2. ^Mother's death certificate Bloemfontein 3. ^Esme Bull, Aided Emigration from Britain to South Africa 1857 to 1867, ed. J.L.Basson (1991) 4. ^1 2 [https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Veld-Girl-Cynthia-Stockley-Recreated-Life-McLoughlin/9176370127/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1489784909&sr=1-1 Veld Girl: Cynthia Stockley - A life recreated by Tim and Betty Mcloughlin] {{ISBN|9176370127}} 5. ^Rhodesia Herald 10 May 1895 6. ^Belfast Telegraph 17 January 1936, p.17 External links
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