Journal belonging to novelist Tasma, 1889-1891

Original held in private ownership. Microfilm copy 1 reel held at the State Library of Victoria. Microfilm copy held at the State Library of NSW.

Summary: Diary: January 1, 1889-July 21, 1891, kept mainly in Brussels, re social life, weather, comments on her family, events on a voyage to Constantinople via Antwerp and Gibraltar, and her return to Brussels. Also includes comments on her writing and lectures. Partly written in French. Biographical / Historical note: 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.