Couvreur, J.C.
| Family name |
Couvreur |
| Short description |
J.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. |
| Birth date |
1848 |
| Death date |
1897 |
| Contact details, URL inlcuding biography |
Biographical note from State Library of Victoria |
| Given name(s) |
J.C. |
| Gender |
Female |
| Alternate name(s) / title(s) |
Tasma |
| Place of birth |
London |
| Place of death |
Brussels |
| Country of death |
Belgium |
| Person type |
Author |
| Information source URL(s) |
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