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Constant uncertainty, Dougal McNeill
Journals 1938-1945 Charles Brasch Margaret Scott (transcriber), Andrew Parsloe (annotator) Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781877372841 Enduring Legacy, the Hocken Library’s 2003 exhibition marking the release of Charles Brasch’s papers from their embargo, was subtitled “patron, poet and collector”. Brasch…
Tagged with: Andrew Parsloe, Autumn 2014, Charles Brasch, Dougal McNeill, Issue 105, Margaret Scott
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
KM’d & KO’d, Alison Gray
Recollecting Mansfield Margaret Scott Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 1869620763 It is hard to know whether Katherine Mansfield would have been delighted, amazed or appalled at the industry that has evolved since her death, at the academic careers she has sustained, at…
Tagged with: Alison Gray, Godwit, Issue 50, Margaret Scott, October 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
‘I have been ill for 200 years’, Jane Stafford
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 3, 1919‑1920 Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (eds), Clarendon Press, $110.95 It is only in fiction that illness makes people saintly. In real life, invalids are cantankerous, depressive and manipulative. To be close…
Tagged with: Clarendon Press, Issue 10, Jane Stafford, Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott, Spring 1993, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Women detecting, Margaret Scott
Murder at the Brian Boru Joan Druett, Harper Collins, $19.95 Backtrack Carol Dawber, River Press, $16.95 These two books have some similarities but more, and greater, differences. Both are murder mysteries set in New Zealand with a woman observer/ solver.…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Carol Dawber, Harper Collins, Issue 8, Joan Druett, Margaret Scott, River Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review