| LC control no. | n 92018749 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9369.3.R637 |
| Personal name heading | Rooke, Daphne, 1914-2009 |
| Variant(s) | Pizzey, Daphne, 1914-2009 |
| See also | Alternate identity: Pointon, Robert, 1914-2009 |
| Associated place | Durban (South Africa) Australia |
| Birth date | 1914-03-06 |
| Death date | 2009-01-01 |
| Place of birth | Boksburg (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Cambridge (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists |
| Found in | Her Mittee, 1991: t.p. (Daphne Rooke) LC data base, 02-21-92 (hdg.: Rooke, Daphne, 1914- ) NUCMC data from Boston Univ., Dept. of Spec. Coll. for Daphne Rooke collection, 1953-1965 (Daphne Marie Rooke; b. 1914; b. in South Africa; also uses pseud. Robert Pointon) Times online WWW site, Feb. 25, 2009 (Daphne Rooke (née Pizzey); b. Mar. 6, 1914, Boksburg, East Rand; m. Irvine ("Bertie") Rooke, 1938 (d. 1989); d. Jan. 21, 2009; South African novelist who wrote with a sharp eye and great sympathy of Boers, Zulus, and Indians) en.wikipedia.org website viewed August 4, 2020: Daphne Rooke (Biography: Lived near Durban, Natal. She was a journalist and author. she had married an Australian named Irvin ("Bertie") Rooke, whom she had met while doing organizational work for the Transport Workers Union. To reconnect with Bertie's Australian family, they left for Australia in 1946. They returned to Natal in 1953, but disturbed by the police state mentality in South Africa, moved back to Australia in 1965. In the 1980s her work was "rediscovered" by the University of Natal, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1997. She remained in Australia until Bertie's death in 1989 when she moved to Cambridge, England, where she lived for the rest of her life) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Rooke> |
| Associated language | eng |
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