Daphne Rooke

Daphne Rooke ( born March 6, 1914 in Boksburg, † 21 January 2009) was a South African writer.

Daphne Rooke was born in Boksburg in the then Transvaal, the youngest of six children. Her father was British, the mother Afrikaners. She worked as a journalist. In 1937, she married the Australian Irvin Rooke; 1949 the couple emigrated to Australia. The University of Natal gave Rooke in 1997 an honorary doctorate. After the death of her husband in 1989 she moved to Cambridge, where she spent the rest of their lives.

Works

Novels

  • The Sea Hath Bounds ( later published as A Grove of Fever Trees )
  • Mittee
  • Ratoons
  • Wizards ' Country
  • Beti
  • A Lover for Estelle (1961 )
  • The Greyling (1963 )
  • Diamond Jo (1965 )
  • Boy on the Mountain ( 1969)
  • Margaretha de la Porte (1974 )

Short stories

  • The Friends, in South African Stories ( 1960)
  • Fikizolo, in Over the Horizon (1960 )

Children's Books

  • The South African Twins (1953 )
  • The Australian Twins (1954 )
  • New Zealand Twins (1957 )
  • Double Ex! (1971)
  • A Horse of His Own (1976 )
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