TWO NOVELISTS KILLED.
ALICE AND CLAUDE ASKEW. (Received 8.40 p.m.) Reuter. LONDON, Oct. 11. The novelists Alice and Claude Askew have been killed through enemy action at sea. Claude Arthur Cary Askew, and his wife Alice Askew, daughter of the late Colonel Henry Leake, wrote a number of novels in collaboration. Their first book, " The Shulamite," published in 1904, was dramatised in 1906 and produced at the Savoy Theatre.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 5
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