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Title
Tasma journal, 1 January 1889-21 July 1891
Creator
1848-1897 Tasma
Call number
MAV/FM4/447
Status: unavailable
Level of description
fonds
Date

1889-1891
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
422683
Physical Description
microfilm reel - negative :
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

J. C. Couvreur, 1848-1897, novelist and short story writer under the pseudonym Tasma, married in 1867 Charles Forbes, divorcing him in 1883. She married soon afterwards Auguste Couvreur, a Belgian politician and journalist. She published several novels 1889-1897. After Couvreur's death in 1894, she succeeded him as the Brussels correspondent for The Times
Scope and Content
Diary 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 her lectures. Partly written in French
Copying Conditions
Research & study copies allowed
Description source

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (7-1037C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
General note

Filmed by the Public Library of New South Wales, 1957
Original held in private ownership

Keyword subjects:
Belgium -- Brussels -- Social life and customs
Name
Tasma, 1848-1897
Subject
Women authors, Australian.
Europe--Description and travel.
Women travelers--Europe.
Place
Brussels (Belgium)

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