Obituary MRS JEAN DEVANNY
Mrs Jean Devanny. a New Zealand-born novelist, has died in Townsville, Australia, aged 63. Mrs Devanny was born in Hokitika and educated in New Zealand. She went to Australia in 1929, living for some years in Sydney and later at Cairns and Townsville. Mrs Devanny wrote many books. Her early works had a New Zealand setting and her later ones featured chiefly the Queensland sugaregrowing area. She was assigned by the Queensland Education Fellowship to write textbooks for schools. “The Butcher Shop” (1926) was Mrs Devanny's most celebrated novel and though it was criticised as having undisciplined crudity and poster-coloured sensationalism, it sold 15,000 copies. The novel dealt with passion and violence on a sheep station near Ta Shape and ended in suicide and murder.
Other novels by Mrs Devanny included “Lenore Divine” (1926), “Dawn Beloved” (1928) and “Bushman Burke” <1930). Mrs Devanny is survived by her husband, one daughter and one grandchild.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29783, 28 March 1962, Page 2
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