Clara Cheeseman (16 July 18521943) was a novelist from England who emigrated to New Zealand as a child.

Biography

Cheeseman was born in

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in 1852 and emigrated to New Zealand with her family, arriving in Auckland on 4 April 1854 on the ''Artemesia.'' Her father was Thomas Cheeseman, a Methodist minister who moved the family to New Zealand in the hope that the climate would cure a throat ailment he suffered from. She had four siblings: two brothers, William and Thomas, and two sisters,

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and

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. Cheeseman's brother Thomas became curator of the

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and she, Emma and Ellen accompanied him on field trips. Cheeseman wrote magazine articles, one of which was published in the ''Australian Ladies' Annual 1878'' and a novel, ''The Rolling Stone,'' which was published in 1886.

References

1852 births 1943 deaths 19th-century New Zealand writers People from Doncaster British emigrants to New Zealand 19th-century New Zealand novelists {{NewZealand-writer-stub