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A frightening, different creativity, Anne French
The Inward Sun: Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame Elizabeth Alley (ed), Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $34.95 Perhaps the worst fate a writer can suffer is to have their life talked about while their work is ignored. If…
Tagged with: Anne French, Autumn 1994, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Elizabeth Alley, Issue 12, Janet Frame
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Remarkable riders, Anna Rogers
Roger Robinson and Anna Rogers review books that document ‘a little-discussed area of women’s endeavour’. Racing Women of New Zealand Mary Mountier, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $34.95 As a reviewer for this book, I am what could be described as…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 10, Mary Mountier, Spring 1993
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Modern Helen of Troy disappoints, Stephanie Edmond
The Iron Mouth Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $32.95 The Iron Mouth, Beryl Fletcher’s second story in a trilogy of feminist novels, is written on two levels. On one level, it is a simple novel about a crowd of…
Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 10, Spring 1993, Stephanie Edmond
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Feminist tissue, Kathryn Walls
Me and Marilyn Monroe Cathie Dunsford (ed), Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $32.95 Dr Cathie Dunsford, inspired by the female forms created by female sculptors, and convinced that women should be speaking out against the maltreatment of their bodies by the…
Tagged with: Cathie Dunsford, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 10, Kathryn Walls, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
‘Womanly skills and small-scale economies’ – old assumptions and fresh perspectives, Margot Roth
Margot Roth reviews a major suffrage year publication, and briefly comments on the difficulties of book reviewing in New Zealand. Women Together: A History of Women’s Organisations in New Zealand ‑ Nga Ropu Wahine o te Motu Anne Else…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Historical Branch Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 10, Margot Roth, Spring 1993
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Publisher’s Profiles 7, Daphne Brasell Associates, Helen Forlong
The quiet atmosphere in the light-filled, softly carpeted offices of Daphne Brasell Associates in the romantic Wellington suburb of Thorndon belies the frantic pace of a business which has produced at least 40 books from its press, hundreds of government…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Helen Forlong, Issue 9, Winter 1993
Posted in Imprints
Posted in Imprints
The loneliness of the short distance columnist, A K Grant
5 Days in Las Vegas Raybon Kan, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $29.95 I must confess to a personal grievance in relation to this book, a collection of pieces, mostly from the Dominion or the Listener, by the gifted young…
Tagged with: A K Grant, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 9, Raybon Kan, Winter 1993
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Raising Questions, Paul Millar
Witi Ihimaera: A Changing Vision Umelo Ojinmah, University of Otago Press, $24.95 I Have What I Gave: The Fiction of Janet Frame Judith Dell Panny, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $34.95 Signs are that New Zealand literature is in good…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 9, Judith Dell Panny, Otago University Press, Paul Millar, Umelo Ojinmah, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Silver threads, Verna Schofield
New Zealand’s Ageing Society: The Implications Peggy G Koopman-Boyden (ed), Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $34.95 The debate on the role of the State in caring for our ageing population is intensifying. Already in the past year, the Government has…
Tagged with: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 9, Peggy G Koopman-Boyden, Verna Schofield, Winter 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Miscellany: Short reviews, Dale Williams
Godwits Return, Margaret Clark (ed), Bridget Williams Books, $29.95 New Zealanders are a restless lot – the more job training we get, the more likely we are to pack up and swim in bigger ponds overseas. Sometimes we come back.…
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