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Grogzone, Charlotte Macdonald
Wanted, a Beautiful Barmaid: Women Behind the Bar in New Zealand, 1830-1976 Susan Upton Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864738943 Conrad Bollinger famously dubbed New Zealand “Grog’s Own Country”. It was 1957. Bollinger was writing under the dark cloud of…
Tagged with: Charlotte Macdonald, Susan Upton, Victoria University Press
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Getting fit for the Empire, Caroline Daley
Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935–1960 Charlotte Macdonald Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 978927131404 In July 1937 the Physical Training and Recreation Act was passed in Britain. A few months later the…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Caroline Daley, Charlotte Macdonald, Issue 99, Spring 2012
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
All shook up, Charlotte MacDonald
Magnitude Eight Plus: New Zealand’s Biggest Earthquake Rodney Grapes Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864733400 Poor Baron Von Alzdorf, owner of Wellington’s largest brick building, a hotel, was the township’s only casualty in the earthquake which struck at 9.17 pm…
Tagged with: Charlotte Macdonald, Issue 48, June 2001, Rodney Grapes, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Science
In for the long haul, Charlotte Macdonald
The National Council of Women — A centennial history Dorothy Page Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books with the National Council of Women, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 154 9 The Women’s Parliament: The National Council of Women of New Zealand 1896-1920…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Charlotte Macdonald, Dorothy Page, Issue 30, Roberta Nicholls, Victoria University Press, Winter 1997
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Stoic endurances, David Green
‘My hand will write what my heart dictates’: The unsettled lives of women in nineteenth-century New Zealand as revealed to sisters, family and friends ed Frances Porter and Charlotte Macdonald with Tui MacDonald Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Charlotte Macdonald, David Green, Frances Porter, Issue 27, Tui MacDonald, Winter 1997
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Collecting and classifying, Charlotte Macdonald
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Volume Two 1870‑1900, Bridget Williams Books/ Department of Internal Affairs, $130.00 Te Timatanga ‑ Tatau Tatau: Early Stories from Founding Members of the Maori Women’s Welfare League, Maori Women’s Welfare League/ Bridget Williams Books,…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Charlotte Macdonald, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 11, Maori Women's Welfare League, Summer 1993
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Collection of writings a ‘veritable smorgasbord’, Maureen Molloy
The Vote, the Pill and the Demon Drink: A History of Feminist Writing in New Zealand Charlotte Macdonald, Victoria University Press, $49.95 Charlotte Macdonald’s compilation of original New Zealand writings by and about women’s rights is a most welcome addition…
Tagged with: Charlotte Macdonald, Issue 10, Maureen Molloy, Spring 1993, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
On top of Mount Cook: women’s worlds, Shelagh Duckham Cox
The Book of New Zealand Women: Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams (eds), Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1991, $45 You could start to read The Book of New Zealand Women at the beginning and…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Bridget Williams, Bridget Williams Books, Charlotte Macdonald, Issue 4, Merimeri Penfold, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Posted in Biography, Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Gender, Non-fiction, Review
An epic tale of inheritance, Charlotte MacDonald
The Hanging Sky Shirley Corlett, Mallinson Rendel, Wellington, 1990, $55 (Paper $39.95) Beginning when ‘Man’ (this is no tale of humankind) first stepped upon the land ‘that had been part of Gondwanaland’ and ending with the present, The Hanging Sky…
Tagged with: Charlotte Macdonald, Issue 2, Mallinson Rendel, Shirley Corlett, Winter 1991
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review