South African writer.
Mary Rosalie Treharne Boyd
Mary Rosalie Boyd on Table Mountain
Street named after Mary Rosalie Treharne Boyd in Elizabethville in South Africa
She won three “Bardic Chairs” for her poetry, South Africa’s highest literary award. The poems for which this award were given were “The Veldt” (1921), “Drought” (1930) and “Table Mountain” (1931), taking a gold medal instead of a chair for the last one as she said she had “no more room for chairs!”
She died a tragic recluse after her marraige to Major Trehane, which seemed to end the flow of her writing, according to some sources, who mused that her sensitivity would be in stark contrast to his militarism, but the truth in that we do not know…
Reference:
* http://www.esaach.org.za/index.php?title=Boyd,_Mary_Rosalie_(Mrs_S.D._Treharne)
* http://donegalgenealogy.com/1901ballymacool.htm
* Biography in Donegal Annual No 59
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Personal Information
| Name | Mary Rosalie Treharne (née Boyd) |
|---|---|
| Birth | 1880 in Ballymacoole House, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland |
| Death | 1960 in Elizabethville, South Africa |
| Parents | |
| Husband | Sidney Douglas Treharne |
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Boydasdasds | 4/2/1890 | Deceased | |
| Agnes Boydasdasds | 18/4/1888 in 18/4/1954 | ON | |
| Helen Boydasdasds | 17/4/1882 in 7/2/1945 | ON | |
| Lily Boydasdasds | 8/3/1881 in 9/3/1881 | ON | |
| John Boydasdasds | 14/2/1886 | Deceased |