Success of Australasian Talent.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2747, 14 June 1894, Page 2

Success of Australasian Talent.

Writing to the Advooate^tbe irwh. ' Oatbofipl organ of Tiotoria, Bfc|"J^ F. Hdgap, M.P., gives a quantity of in tiireet* . mg information upon the ofj{j| Australians in London. Begirding H The^^ Yellow Aster;" a recent novel that has gained great popularity, Mr Borah says ; "It is a clever book, bat there art passages in it that are decidedly coarse and repulsive. Mrs Oaffyn — formerly Misi Kathleen Hunt — ia a native of Tipperary, and. was an hospital nurse in London for some years before going oat to. Australia. JTbat-apooants for the nasty passmgei in her novel, for* tibspitaV naries^ffroinb accustomed to repulsive soenei ila^t incidents that they . by degreM^opfne think lightly of them,, and' write about them in a free-and-easy style calouUted; to ■shook Jess hardened \ ■ peoplei ' t \ NoVelt. jwntten by Australian ladies bayiik'tiedy^ been pariicularlV popular feer*/" •jrsf- t ' jCampbeH.Praed, who comes from QdeW*" jland ; Mrs " Humphrey Ward, aod r *> Tasma " (formerly Miss Jessie Hoyhert)^ who belong to, Tasmania; rAda oam4 ibridße," who is , Mrs G.* I!. ;Croßs, .ol Williamatown, jiear.Melboume; and Mrs Hartley, of South Aasttalia, have all itrge ; circles of admirers in this great novel* 1 -' reading oomnruoity.'*'" " If," f he writes, ■ " Wue 'to'^elM- ft paragraph in this week's Literary World, a Geelong girl isWrnipe to the front? anTl '. ' seemß destined to V excel all othtl Australian authoreeeea iv popularity. The paragraph rruns . thus :— i Tbe > Auitraiian authoress who has , enjoyed, most "Jpb. stantial suooeqi after , Mrs Hamrafiy Ward is not Ada Cambridge, 'lioif Bfti ManniDgton Caffyn, nor Mrs ClmpßtfQ' Praed, bat Mrs Harrison DaVii, nJbrt than 12,000 copies of whose .' For, So ' Little' have been sold. ; MreDavir.whott . husband is the bead oi one of the gr»a| American insurance companies in Tion,don t was formerly a Miss Deqntys, . rend&B in ' GeeloDß." , The Miss Deonysiß, of oonrt* a mistake, for Mrs Harrison. Darii' ixiaTdnt name was Miaja Corrigan.'* ''.; " ] • T'*-* s