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The thing-ness of history, Cherie Lacey

Posted on March 13, 2016 by NZ Books

The Lives of Colonial Objects Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla (eds) Otago University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781927322024 The Lives of Colonial Objects seeks to tell the history, or rather a number of histories, of New Zealand’s colonial past…

Tagged with: Angela Wanhalla, Annabel Cooper, Autumn 2016, Cherie Lacey, Issue 113, Lachy Paterson, Otago University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Southern woman, Anne Else

Posted on December 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Sites of Gender: Women, men and modernity in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1939 ed Barbara Brookes, Annabel Cooper, and Robin Law Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 1869403010 More than half the women of south Dunedin – over twice the proportion for New…

Tagged with: Annabel Cooper, Anne Else, Auckland University Press, Barbara Brookes, Issue 64, Robin Law, Summer 2003
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review

In praise of difficult women, Annabel Cooper

Posted on June 1, 1991 by NZ Books

Who is Sylvia? The Diary of a Biography Lynley Hood John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1990, $29.95 Sylvia! The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner Lynley Hood Viking, Auckland 1988, $39.95, Paper $24.95 Who is Sylvia? is a day-by-day account of Lynley Hood’s work,…

Tagged with: Annabel Cooper, Issue 2, John McIndoe, Lynley Hood, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Viking, Winter 1991
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review