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Burke was also a travel writer. She collaborated with her father on a book about camp life in the Indian jungles,
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in India at her early childhood. As a girl in India, she wrote and edited her own little magazine,
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165:(1948). Her short stories were published widely from the 1930s into the 1960s, especially in
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138:(1933), drew on her own background for the book's settings, Suffolk and India.
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Wrench Burke was born in India. Her father, Redmond St. George Burke, was a
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Treasure Trove: A Collection of ICSE Poems and Short
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Eleven leopards; a journey through the jungles of Ceylon
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Eleven
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189:(1935). She returned to the theme in her memoir
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142:(1934) was set in historical Suffolk, and
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201:(1965). She also wrote about wildlife in
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