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Doris Boake Kerr (29 August 1889 at Summer Hill, Sydney – 5 June 1944 at Caulfield, Victoria) was a writer who published using the pseudonyms Capel Boake[1] and Stephen Grey.[2] Her publishing career began with a story appearing in the Australasian in January 1916. Other stories and stories appeared in the Victorian School Paper. She wrote four novels:

• Painted Clay (Melbourne, 1917, published by the Australasian Authors' Agency and reprinted by Virago London in 1986);
• The Romany Mark (New South Wales Bookstall Co, 1923);
• The Dark Thread (Hutchinson London, 1936); and
• The Twig is Bent, written with the aid of a Commonwealth literary grant but published posthumously (Sydney, 1946).

Her subject matter included the options available to women in the early twentieth century, circus life, and early Melbourne history.[1]

She used the pseudonym Stephen Grey when writing in collaboration with Bernard Cronin.[2]

Capel Boake was also a poet: a collection of her verse was published posthumously in 1949 as The Selected Poems of Capel Boake.

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