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One useful, one not, Heather Murray

Posted on June 8, 1996 by NZ Books

The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield Jan Pilditch (ed) Greenwood Press, United States, $55 ISBN 0 313 290644 Katherine Mansfield: A “Do You Remember” Life, Four Stories with an Illustrated Introduction Gillian Boddy Victoria University Press with the Katherine Mansfield…

Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Greenwood Press, Heather Murray, Issue 23, Jan Pilditch, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society, Spring 1996, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Review

Robust, brilliant, rather difficult, Heather Roberts

Posted on September 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Disputed Ground, Robin Hyde, Journalist Gillian Boddy and Jacqueline Matthews (eds), Victoria University Press, $34.95 A book of selected journalism seems an unlikely place to make a serious assessment of a writer. Journalism is regarded as ephemeral, lost in musty…

Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Heather Roberts, Issue 6, Jacqueline Matthews, Robin Hyde, Spring 1992, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review

Rampant Monetarism, Gillian Boddy

Posted on September 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Feral City Rosie Scott, Reed, 1991, $24.95 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/ The blood‑dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned; (W B Yeats, The Second Coming) The…

Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Issue 6, Reed, Rosie Scott, Spring 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review