Daphne Clair

Daphne Clair Williams de Jong
BornDaphne Clair Williams
1939 (age 84–85)
Dargaville, Northland, New Zealand
Pen nameDaphne Clair
Laurey Bright
Claire Lorel
Daphne de Jong
Clarissa Garland
OccupationWriter
NationalityNew Zealand
Period1977–2007
GenreRomance, poetry, non-fiction
Website
www.daphneclair.com

Daphne Clair de Jong, née Williams (born 1939 in Dargaville, Northland) is a popular New Zealand writer of over 75 romance novels since 1977 as Daphne Clair and Daphne de Jong, and under the pseudonyms Laurey Bright, Clair Lorel, and Clarissa Garland, and she also publishes poetry and articles.

Daphne Clair de Jong was a founding member and first president of Feminists for Life New Zealand, and wrote articles articulating its position in the seventies. Feminists for Life had no policies on homosexuality/lesbianism or divorce, as stated in the constitution. She subsequently resigned from the organisation, which had increasingly become associated with social conservatism and conservative Christianity and later became Women for Life, dropping its feminist focus. After subsequently becoming the Family Education Network in the late nineties, the organisation ceased to exist altogether.