Writers in Residence: A Journey with Pioneer New Zealand WritersThis is a book about nineteenth-century New Zealand writers, which presents in human terms what it meant to be a writer in a strange new land. Unexpected people took to the pen; travellers recorded their adventures; soldiers, judges, civil servants burst into print. The 20 writers include Joel Polack, William Colenso, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Frederick Maning, John Logan Campbell, Samuel Butler, Lady Barker, and end with Blanche Baughan and Jessie Mackay. While the book required considerable research it is not an academic book but, with its strong biographical emphasis, is lively and accessible. It aims to take these talented, entertaining and courageous characters out of the exclusive possession of the scholars into the New Zealand mainstream as part of a general sense of the past lived in this land. As the author says, 'I hope to have captured something of the reality of the lives lived and to create a sense of this country as one inhabited by writers.' It shows writing as a way in which a new place is explored and understood. |
Contents
John Barr Thomas Bracken Alexander Bathgate Vincent Pyke | 177 |
ELEVEN | 199 |
Edward Tregear 18461931 | 229 |
Jessie Mackay 18641938 | 261 |
Epilogue | 290 |
Bibliography | 306 |
Common terms and phrases
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