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Daphne Marie Rooke (International) assertion Daphne Marie Rooke i(A46920 works by) (birth name: Daphne Marie Pizzey)
Also writes as: Robert Pointon
Born: Established: 1914 Transvaal,
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South Africa,
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Southern Africa, Africa, ;
Gender: Female
Visitor assertion Arrived in Australia: 1946 Departed from Australia: 1991
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1 y separately published work icon Three Rivers : a memoir Daphne Marie Rooke , Cambridge : Daffodil Press , 2003 Z1419541 2003 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon A Horse of His Own Daphne Marie Rooke , London : Gollancz , 1976 Z941606 1976 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Margaretha de la Porte : a novel Daphne Marie Rooke , London : Gollancz , 1974 Z1421594 1974 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Double Ex! Daphne Marie Rooke , London : Gollancz , 1971 Z935601 1971 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Boy on the Mountain Daphne Marie Rooke , London : Gollancz , 1969 Z1421552 1969 single work novel
2 y separately published work icon Diamond Jo : A Novel Daphne Marie Rooke , London : Gollancz , 1965 Z1421522 1965 single work novel

'Diamond Jo was a woman to love, and a woman to remember, as Sir Emmanuel Berstein, who tells her story, loved and remembers her. The story burns with diamond fever; charged with the ruthlessness of a harsh land where a man could become a millionaire one night and be murdered for his wealth before the next day began.'   (Publication summary)
2 y separately published work icon The Australian Twins Daphne Marie Rooke , London : Jonathan Cape , 1954 Z1418548 1954 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Ratoons Daphne Marie Rooke , London : Gollancz , 1953 Z1421445 1953 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Apples in the Hold Robert Pointon , London : Museum Press , 1952 Z1662878 1952 single work novel
8 y separately published work icon Mittee Daphne Marie Rooke , London : Gollancz , 1951 Z1418756 1951 single work novel First published in 1952, Mittee was an international bestseller. Set in late nineteenth-century Transvaal, it dramatizes the intense, ambiguous love-hate relationship between Selina, a young colored servant girl, and her privileged white mistress, Mittee, and explores the roles forced upon the two women, fierce rivals for the attentions of the same man. Juxtaposing violence and sexuality the author crosses gender and racial boundaries in this powerful exposure of a patriarchal, puritanical and divided society. (Source: The Toby Press's website)
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