Diary of a Kiwi Soldier in World War II Cecil Coughlan (ed Garrie Coughlan) Reed, $19.99, ISBN 1007900104X No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G Malone ed John Crawford (with Peter Cooke) Reed, $49.99, ISBN…
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It was hell, Gavin McLean
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Issue 74, Winter 2006
Posted in Letters, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Letters, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War
According to Toss, Ian Richards
Toss Woollaston: A Life in Letters ed Jill Trevelyan Te Papa Press, $59.99, ISBN 0909010072 The first thing you notice about this handsomely produced volume from Te Papa Press is the title Woollaston, in large red letters, running down the…
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Tagged with: Ian Richards, Issue 68, Jill Trevelyan, June 2005, Te Papa Press
Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Life in detail, Lydia Wevers
Letters from the Bay of Islands: The Story of Marianne Williams ed Caroline Fitzgerald Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143019295 It is always the detail of the past that brings it most sharply to mind. William Colenso’s observation in the 1880s that…
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Tagged with: Caroline Fitzgerald, Issue 66, Lydia Wevers, Penguin, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Catching the post, Linda Burgess
The Penguin Book of New Zealand Letters ed Louise Lawrence Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018663 Oh friends, friends – where would we be without them? Sometimes they move far away, as did Charlotte Bronte’s school friend and confidante Mary Taylor, who…
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Tagged with: Issue 60, Linda Burgess, Louise Lawrence, Penguin, Summer 2002
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Passionate Victorians, Edmund Bohan
Tom’s Letters. The Private World of Thomas King, Victorian Gentleman Margot Fry Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864733917 One of many challenges facing the biographer of 19th Century New Zealanders can be the lack of intimate letters or diaries. The vagaries…
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Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, Issue 50, Margot Fry, October 2001, Thomas King, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Young Jim, W H Oliver
Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K Baxter’s correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942-1946 ed Paul Millar Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 086473400X I began this book thinking that a shorter one might have been enough for a smallish collection of…
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Tagged with: Issue 54, James K Baxter, Noel Ginn, Paul Millar, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver, Winter 2001
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Poetry, Review
Open letters, Tim Beaglehole
Dear Peggy: Letters to Margaret Garland from her New Zealand Friends Peter and Dianne Beatson (ed) Sociology Department, Massey University $35.00 ISBN 0 95836254 8 Peggy Garland came out to Wellington in 1947 with a young family and an unsatisfactory,…
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Tagged with: Dianne Beatson, Issue 35, Margaret Garland, Massey University, Peter Beatson, Sociology Department, Tim Beaglehole
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
‘I have been ill for 200 years’, Jane Stafford
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 3, 1919‑1920 Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (eds), Clarendon Press, $110.95 It is only in fiction that illness makes people saintly. In real life, invalids are cantankerous, depressive and manipulative. To be close…
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Tagged with: Clarendon Press, Issue 10, Jane Stafford, Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott, Spring 1993, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Lively and perceptive, Elizabeth Marsden
The Selected Letters of Mary Hobhouse Shirley Tunnicliff (ed), Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Wellington, 1992, $24.95 Mary Hobhouse came to New Zealand, arriving in March 1859, as the wife of the first Anglican Bishop of the province of Nelson. She…
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Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Elizabeth Marsden, Issue 6, Mary Hobhouse, Shirley Tunnicliff, Spring 1992
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review