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Table of Contents: - A Sydney Sovereign - How a Claim was Nearly Jumped in Gum-Tree Gully - Barren Love - A Philanthropist's Experiment - Monsieur Caloche ............................................................................... Provided by The Australian Dictionary of Biography: COUVREUR, JESSIE CATHERINE (1848-1897), novelist and short story writer (under the pseudonym, 'Tasma') was born at Southwood Lodge, Highgate, London, the second child and eldest daughter of James Alfred Huybers and Charlotte Sophia, nee Ogleby. Her father was of Dutch stock and her mother Anglo-French. In the early 1850's the family migrated to Hobart Town where Huybers established a prosperous business. Although he was well read and had a fine library, it was the mother who appears to have exercised the greater influence on the children's intellectual development. As a result they acquired an awareness which one would hardly expect from those nutured in Hobart in the 1850's and 1860's.