Stella Blakemore

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Stella Blakemore
Personal details
Born(1906-04-13)April 13, 1906
Lindley, Orange Free State, South Africa
DiedMay 1991
Rostrevor, Newry and Mourne, Northern Ireland, UK
NationalitySouth African
Spouse(s)David Owen
Children2
Alma mater Royal Academy of Music
Known forSouth African Youth Fiction Writer
Nom de plume is Theunis Krogh

Stella Blakemore (1906-1991) was a South African woman writer of Afrikaans youth novels.

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Roots

Blakemore was born in a tent near Lindley in the Orange River Colony on 13 April 1906. She went to school in Natal. Her mother, Emmarentia Susanna Catherina Krogh was a music teacher of Boer descent and her father was Captain Percy Harold Jenks Blakemore, an officer in the British Army. However, Blakemore left his wife and child four years later to become a professional card player. Her most famous pseudonym, Theunis Krogh, was derived from her grandfather on her mother's side - Theunis Johannes Krogh, the undersecretary of the South African Republic administration of President Paul Kruger. In 1933 she married the Welshman David Owen, a civil engineer, in London, which was the start of a period of worldwide travel for her. The lived, amongst other places, in Ghana, The Ivory Coast, Italy, England, Swaziland, Nigeria, Germany and Ireland. The couple had two children, Peter and Salene, both of whom were adopted. She died in Rostrevor, Newry and Mourne, Northern Ireland, UK, aged 85 In May 1991. [1] [2]

Education

After completing high school she studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as well as opera in Germany. Afterwards she returned to South Africa where she taught for a time in Johannesburg and Pretoria. [3] [4]

Writing

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