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词条 Stella Blakemore
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  1. Roots

  2. Education

  3. Writing

  4. References

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Stella Blakemore was a South African woman author of Afrikaans youth novels.

Roots

Blakemore was born in a tent near Lindley in the Orange Free State on 13 April 1906. She went to school in Natal. Her mother, Emmarentia Susanna Catherina Krogh was a music teacher of Boer descent and her father was Captain Percy Harold Jenks Blakemore, an officer in the British Army. However, Blakemore left his wife and child four years later to become a professional card player. Her most famous pseudonym, Theunis Krogh, was derived from her grandfather on her mother's side - Theunis Johannes Krogh, the undersecretary of the South African Republic administration of President Paul Kruger. In 1933 she married the Welshman David Owen, a civil engineer, in London, which was the start of a period of worldwide travel for her. The lived, amongst other places, in Ghana, The Ivory Coast, Italy, England, Swaziland, Nigeria, Germany and Ireland. The couple had two children, Peter and Salene, both of whom were adopted. She died in Rostrevor, Newry and Mourne, Northern Ireland, UK, aged 85 In May 1991.[1][2]

Education

After completing high school she studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as well as opera in Germany. Afterwards she returned to South Africa where she taught for a time in Johannesburg and Pretoria. [3] [4]

Writing

  • She began writing in the 1920s in Germany; her first work was a play, Die Goue Sleutel ("The Golden Key").[5]
  • Die Meisies van Maasdorp ("The Girls of Maasdorp") - the first book in her Maasdorp series - was published in 1932. Fifteen other books in this series followed.[6]
  • Blakemore also wrote the twenty-book Keurboslaan series (under the male pseudonym Theunis Krogh).The first book was "die Hoof van Keurboslaan"[7]
  • She also wrote books under the names Analize Biermann, Stella Owen and Diem Grimbeeck.[8]
  • 66 books were published[9]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.humanrousseau.com/authors/2462 | title=Author focus |accessdate= 31 July 2018| publisher=Human & Rossouw}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php/Stella_Blakemore | title=Stella Blakemore |accessdate=1 September 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.storiewerf.co.za/artikels-dinkskrum/maasdorpma.htm |author= Dick, J.,Booyens, S. and Booyens, H. |date=September 2001 |title=Stella Blakemore| accessdate= 15 February 2018|publisher=Storiewerf}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.springbokboeke.co.za/html/stella_blakemore.html |title=Stella Blakemore |publisher=Springbok books |accessdate=5 January 2018}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nb.co.za/authors/2462 |publisher=NB publishers|title=Stella blakemore |accessdate=31 August 2018}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sQ3swEACAAJ&dq=Meisies+van+Maasdorp&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4v43Nv57dAhWlL8AKHeWgDnQQ6AEIJjAA |title=Die Meisies van Maasdorp |isbn=9780627003165| publisher=Van Schaick}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3230674-die-hoof-van-keurboslaan |title=Die hoof van Keurboslaan|publisher=Van Schaick}}
8. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.mandela.ac.za/onseangeltjie/maas.htm |title=Rensensies Maasdorp |publisher= University of Nelson Mandela |author=du Plooy, T.|accessdate= 2 September 2018}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Stella+Blakemore&qt=results_page |title =Stella Blakemore|publisher=World Cat|accessdate= 3 September 2018}}
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8 : 1906 births|1991 deaths|South African people of Dutch descent|South African people of British descent|South African children's writers|Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music|South African women writers|South African writers

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