Clara Cheeseman

{{short description|English-born New Zealand novelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2025}} '''Clara Cheeseman''' (16 July 1852{{spaced ndash}}1943) was a novelist from England who emigrated to New Zealand as a child.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-SamEarl-t1-body1-d14-d3.html|title=Thomas Cheeseman (1846-1923) {{!}} NZETC|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=2019-05-21}}</ref>

== Biography == Cheeseman was born in [[Doncaster|Doncaster, England]] 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 Frederic Cheeseman|Thomas]], and two sisters, [[Emma Cheeseman|Emma]] and [[Ellen Cheeseman|Ellen]].<ref name=":0" />

Cheeseman's brother Thomas became curator of the [[Auckland Museum]] and she, Emma and Ellen accompanied him on field trips.<ref name=":0" />

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/name-111373.html|title=Clara Cheeseman {{!}} NZETC|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=2019-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-McCLett-t1-body-d4.html#name-111373-mention|title=4 — Opening Up {{!}} NZETC|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=2019-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/resources/resource-lists/short-stories/results?result_259920_result_page=135|title=Results - The Library: University of Waikato|website=www.waikato.ac.nz|access-date=2019-05-21}}</ref>

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