Doris Boake Kerr (29 August 1889 at Summer Hill, Sydney – 5 June 1944 at Caulfield, Victoria) was a writer who published using the pseudonyms Capel Boake and Stephen Grey. Her publishing career began with a story appearing in the ''Australasian'' in January 1916. She later published a number of other stories in publicatons such as

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and The Herald. She used the pseudonym Stephen Grey when writing in collaboration with

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. The subject matter of her work included the options available to women in the early twentieth century, circus life, and early Melbourne history. She was a founding member of the Society of Australian Authors and well as participating in local literary societies. She was a niece of the Australian author Barcroft Boake.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Painted Clay'' (1917), Melbourne, published by the Australasian Authors' Agency and reprinted by Virago London in 1986, ISBN 086068766X * ''The Romany Mark'' (1923), New South Wales Bookstall Co * ''The Dark Thread'' (1936), Hutchinson London * ''The Twig is Bent'' (1946),

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, written with the aid of a Commonwealth literary grant but published posthumously, Sydney

Poetry

* ''Kangaroo Rhymes'' (1922), Melbourne, as by "Stephen Grey" * ''The Selected Poems of Capel Boake'' (1949), Melbourne

References

20th-century Australian novelists Australian women novelists 1889 births 1944 deaths 20th-century Australian poets 20th-century Australian women writers Pseudonymous women writers 19th-century Australian women 20th-century pseudonymous writers {{Australia-writer-stub