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Title: Witwater se mense
Author: Marguerite Isabel Murray
Publisher: Kaapstad : Tafelberg, 1974.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Afrikaans
Description: 131 p. ; 22 cm.
About the Author:
Marguerite I. Murray
1899 - 1983
Playwright and author of short stories
Stories from the Cederberge
Donated her valuable art collection to the University Art Gallery, Stellenbosch
Marguerite Isabel Murray was born in Worcester 1899 as one of nine children. She was a first year student at the Victoria College in 1918, when it obtained university status (and was later called the University of Stellenbosch).
She was a teacher at Bloemhof in Stellenbosch for four years and at Jan van Riebeeck School in Cape Town for six years before she took the position of a lecturer at the University of Cape Town.
Marguerite was a founding member of the Cape Town Amateur Theatre Group (Kaapstadse Amateur-toneelvereniging -die KAT).
From the money she saved from her first salaries she bought the work by South African artists, among them: Gregoir Boonzaier, Elise Bodley, Maggie Laubscher, Pierneef, Stanley Pinker, Enslin du Plessis, JA Smith, Irma Stern, Paul du Toit, Jean Welz and Appie van Wyk.
After her retirement Marguerite Murray lived in Azaleahof, Stellenbosch. She died in July 1983.
Tafelberg-Uitgewers, Kaapstad, 1974. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The boards are in excellent condition. Internally clean and tightly bound. Book is in Afrikaans. Inside pages in fine condition. Inside pages in very fine condition. Book appears to be unread. Excellent binding. Book comes with original "Resensie Eksemplaar" complimentary slip from Tafelberg Publishers, with price. Very rare book in this almost untouched condition. A must-have for the collector.
From the late estate of an esteemed scholar and antiquarian.
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