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Theresa Tasmania Theresa Tasmania i(A74065 works by)
Writing name for: Lucy Anna Edgar
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Theresa Tasmania contributed poetry and fiction regularly to The Australian Journal , the Tasmanian Messenger and the Christian Witness. Some critics have suggested that the name may be a second pseudonym used by Tasma (Jessie Couvreur). (See 'Was T[h]eresa Tasmania Actually Tasma?' by Victor Crittenden, Margin, No.38, April, 1996.) More recent research by Ian Morrison and Laurie Rowston suggests that Theresa Tasmania was in fact Lucy Edgar. Rowston argues that the identification of Lucy Edgar with Theresa Tasmania can be seen as definitive. The two authors are linked by an editorial note in the Tasmanian Messenger November 1865 and the poems published in Tasmanian publications of the period support this identification through their religious themes, reflecting the Baptist faith of Lucy Edgar.

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