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Couvreur, J.C.

Family NameCouvreur
Given Name(s)J.C.
Alternate Name(s) / Title(s) Tasma
GenderFemale
Short DescriptionJ.C. Couvreur, 1848-1897, novelist and short story writer under the pseudonym Tasma, was born in London and migrated with her parents to Hobart Town in the early 1850s. She married in 1867 Charles Forbes, and lived in the Kyneton district in Victoria where Charles had been in the milling business of a relation, William Degraves. They divorced in 1883 and she returned to Europe and married soon afterwards Auguste Couvreur, a Belgian politician and journalist. She published several novels 1889-1897. After Couvreur’s death in 1984, she succeeded him as the Brussels correspondent for The Times. She died in Brussels on 23 October 1897.
Person TypeAuthor
Birth Date1848
Place Of Birth London
Death Date 1897
Country Of DeathBelgium
Place Of DeathBrussels
Contact Details, U R L Including Biography Biographical note from State Library of Victoria
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