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One useful, one not, Heather Murray
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…
Robust, brilliant, rather difficult, Heather Roberts
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
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Rampant Monetarism, Gillian Boddy
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)…
Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Issue 6, Reed, Rosie Scott, Spring 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review