9781877133374 - The Story of a New Zealand Writer: Jane Mander de McGregor, Rae (3 resultados)

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Soft Covers. Condición: VG. No Jacket. Photos, Map Ilustrador. 1st. Jane Mander was a woman author with discriptive skills, social idealism, outspoken views and crusading zeal which caused her first novel "The Story of a New Zealand River" (1920) to drew fierce criticism in NZ for its depiction of women as strong, independent and free-thinking. The book represented life in Northland at the height of the Kauri timber boom of the late 1800s/early 1900's, a trade in which her father was involved. This background, plus her literary ability, made the setting and characterisations. extremely accurate, portraying the tone of back-blocks NZ at that time. In response to the book one prominant reviewer said the author's chief fault was "her obsession with sex; a lttle more reticence would do her no harm." Today these passages would be considerared very tame. Rae McGregor's biography gives a fine word portrait of this pioneering NZ women novalist who lived a full and varied interlectual, journalisitic, literary and cosmopolitan life, even if her four subsequent novels did not attract the praise, or notoriety, of the first, which had been favourably reviewed in the US and England. Mander went to New York, via London.not long before WWI, studied journalism at Columbia University and .when the US entered WWI in 1917 worked worked for the Red Cross in NY. After a number of rejections her ".River"' was published in London by Bodley Head in 1920. Crossing back to England in 1923 Mander worked in literary circles there and in Paris until 1932 when she returned to NZ , to be dismayed by its lack of culture and regressive attitudes to the social and feminist issues she advocated. Dogged in latter years by ill-health she died at Whangarei in 1949. First edition of 1998 by Otago University Press, 146 pages including notes, bibliography and index, 28 b/w photos, map, VG pictoria/art card covers have light wear to corners, internally VG+, no inscriptions.

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