LITERARY ABILITY.
A FEATHERSI’ON GIRL OF 17
AVINS “LONE HAND” STORY COMPETITION.
Special to Times. AVELLINGTON, Nov. 26. Aliss Dcamer, who has won tlio £25 prize offered by the Lone Hand Magazine proprietors (Sydney) tor short story by an Australasian writer, besides £5 for copy wnght privileges, is a Feathcrston girl or summers. She is the daughter of Dr. Dcamer, 'and her maternal grandfather was Colonel Reader, well known in AVcllington. She loved the simple life and the open air, and is studious withal, knowing her Shakespeare from cover to cover, and like a ■rood many girls of 16 her “fancy lightly turns” to tlio stage. She lias written both in prose and verse tor love of the exercise and not for publication, though her verses have been highly appreciated by some who have seen them in manuscript. The Post • comments oil the _ ract that the news was intimated in a seven-line paragraph, and . adds, “Had this Australasian championship been one of muscle instead of brain, a column would have been inadequate to satisfy the demand for details concerning tlio winner.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 27 November 1907, Page 3
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181LITERARY ABILITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 27 November 1907, Page 3
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