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New Zealand Women Writers' Society
The New Zealand Women Writers' Society (NZWWS), originally named the New Zealand Women Writers' and Artists' Society, was founded on 11 July 1932 in Wellington. Until its dissolution in July 1991, the NZWWS supported and encouraged women writers in New Zealand. Its activities included running writing competitions, publication of a regular newsletter, hosting events and courses, advising members on the publishing process, and publishing journals and anthologies of members' work. History The NZWWS was founded by Nellie Donovan-Hair, then aged 18, who arranged the first meeting at the YWCA clubrooms in Wellington. She later said she "had always wanted to write, but found few outlets, and I wanted to meet other young women who had the same ambitions". The first meeting was chaired by male journalist and supporter Pat Lawlor (who would in 1977 serve as the first male vice-president of the organisation). 48 foundation members joined at or within a month of that first meeting. Donovan- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by metro area, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed. Legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the 10th century, with initial settlement by Māori iwi such as Rangitāne and Muaūpoko. The disruptions of the Musket Wars led to them being overwhelmed by northern iwi such as Te Āti Awa by the early 19th century. Wellington's current form was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company, in 1840. The Wellington urban area, which only includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages. Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. After being raised by her parents and her beloved grandmother, she began school in Karori with her sisters before attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahupuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship. Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Frame
Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand,The Order of New Zealand Honours List New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauris Edmond
Lauris Dorothy Edmond (née Scott, 2 April 1924 – 28 January 2000) was a New Zealand poet and writer. Biography Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, Edmond survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child. Trained as a teacher, she raised a family before publishing the poetry she had privately written throughout her life. Following her first book, ''In Middle Air'', written in 1975, she published many volumes of poetry, a novel, an autobiography (''Hot October'', 1989) and several plays. Her ''Selected Poems'' (1984) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Edmond wrote poetry throughout her life but decided to publish her first collection of verse, ''In Middle Air'', only in 1975, at the age of 51.Lauris Edmond, ''In Middle Air: Poems'' (Christchurch, New Zealand, Pegasus Press, 1975). The work was awarded the PEN Best First Book Award for 1975. She began her editorial activities in 1979, and in 1980 published a selection of poems by Chris Ward.Chris Ward, ''A Remedial Persiflage'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Duggan
Eileen May Duggan (21 May 1894 – 10 December 1972) was a New Zealand poet and journalist, from an Irish Roman Catholic family. She worked in Wellington as a journalist, and wrote a weekly article for the Catholic weekly '' The New Zealand Tablet'' for almost fifty years. Early life She was born in Tuamarina near Blenheim in Marlborough, the youngest of four daughters of John and Julia Duggan. They were both from County Kerry, Ireland, and had married in Wellington on 7 October 1885. John was a platelayer on the New Zealand Railways. She attended Tuamarina School from 1901 to 1910 and Marlborough High School. She taught as a pupil teacher at Tuamarina School from 1912 to 1913, and attended Wellington Teachers Training College from 1914 to 1915. She studied at Victoria University College, Wellington from 1916, receiving a BA in 1916, and a MA with first class honours in history in 1918, and was awarded the Jacob Joseph Scholarship. She taught at Dannevirke High Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Edith Hilda Drummond
Alison Edith Hilda Drummond (22 January 1903–3 July 1984) was a New Zealand farmer, writer, historian and editor. She was born in Waitekauri, Thames/Coromandel, New Zealand on 22 January 1903. She was the grandniece of Elsdon Best Elsdon Best (30 June 1856 – 9 September 1931) was an ethnographer who made important contributions to the study of the Māori of New Zealand. Early years Elsdon Best was born 30 June 1856 at Tawa Flat, New Zealand, to William Best and the f .... Walter Gudgeon was her maternal grandfather. References 1903 births 1984 deaths New Zealand farmers New Zealand women farmers New Zealand women historians People from Coromandel Peninsula 20th-century New Zealand historians 20th-century New Zealand women writers {{NewZealand-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Cowley
Cassia Joy Cowley (; born 7 August 1936) is a New Zealand author best known for her children's fiction, including the popular series of books Mrs. Wishy-Washy. Cowley started out writing novels for adults, and her first book, ''Nest in a Falling Tree'' (1967), was adapted for the screen by Roald Dahl. It became the 1971 film ''The Night Digger''. Following its success in the United States, Cowley wrote several other novels, including ''Man of Straw'' (1972), ''Of Men and Angels'' (1972), ''The Mandrake Root'' (1975), and ''The Growing Season'' (1979). Typical themes of these works were marital infidelity, mental illness, and death, as experienced within families. Cowley has also published several collections of short stories, including ''Two of a Kind'' (1984) and ''Heart Attack and Other Stories'' (1985). Today she is best known for children's books, such as ''The Silent One'' (1981), which was made into a 1985 film. Others include ''Bow Down Shadrach'' (1991) and its sequel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isobel Andrews
Isabella Smith Andrews (; 2 November 1905 – 19 June 1990), known professionally as Isobel Andrews, was a Scottish-born New Zealand playwright, novelist, short-story writer and poet. She wrote over sixty plays, many of which were published, and was associated with the New Zealand branch of the British Drama League. She won the League's annual playwrighting competition four times. Her plays, particularly ''The Willing Horse'', have continued to be performed into the 21st century. Early life and marriage Andrews was born in Glasgow on 2 November 1905. Her parents were Jeanie Scott and James Young, a mercantile clerk. Her family moved to New Zealand in 1911, living first in Bulls and then in Wellington, where she attended Wellington Girls College. On 19 December 1932 she married Ernest Stanhope Andrews, a public servant, who became the founding director of New Zealand's National Film Unit in 1941. Early writing career Andrews was a founding member of the New Zealand Women Writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Andersen
Catherine Ann Andersen (; 1 August 1870 – 15 September 1957) was a New Zealand teacher, community leader and writer. She worked with a number of organisations promoting the interests of women and children, and was a founding member of both the Wellington Lyceum Club and the New Zealand Women Writers' and Artists' Society. Life and career Andersen was born in Onehunga, Auckland, on 1 August 1870. She was the older daughter of James McHaffie, a Scottish clerk, and Ellen Leatherbarrow, a Londoner. Her father had come to New Zealand in the West Coast Gold Rush. The family moved to Christchurch in 1875 and when her mother died in 1881, Andersen took over running the household. She was educated, and later taught, at Christchurch Normal School. She married clerk Johannes Andersen in May 1900, after which she gave up teaching. They had two sons. Andersen became involved in various community organisations. From 1910, she was a member of a committee that worked to establish a free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avis Acres
Thyra Avis Mary Acres (née McNeill, 26 March 1910 – 15 October 1994) was a New Zealand artist, writer, illustrator and conservationist. She is best known for her comic strip about two pohutukawa fairies, ''Hutu and Kawa''. Biography Avis Acres was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 26 March 1910, the eldest of four children. In 1913 she moved to Auckland with her parents. She attended St Cuthbert's College in Auckland from 1915 until 1924, when family financial difficulty forced Acres to get a job writing show cards for shops. She later worked in an architect's office, copying drawings. Encouraged by her father who recognised her talent for drawing, Avis attended night classes to learn pen and ink sketching at the Druleigh School of Art on Queen Street. It was these lessons that gave her the confidence to write her first cartoon series, ''The Adventures of Twink and Wink, the Twinkle Twins'' which was published by the Auckland Star. Together with a friend, Avis ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christchurch
Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / Ōtākaro flows through the centre of the city, with an urban park along its banks. The city's territorial authority population is people, and includes a number of smaller urban areas as well as rural areas. The population of the urban area is people. Christchurch is the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland. It is the major urban area of an emerging sub-region known informally as Greater Christchurch. Notable smaller urban areas within this sub-region include Rangiora and Kaiapoi in Waimakariri District, north of the Waimakariri River, and Rolleston and Lincoln in Selwyn District to the south. The first inhabitants migrated to the area sometime between 1000 and 1250 AD. They hunted moa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Internal Affairs
The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), or in te reo Māori, is the public service department of New Zealand charged with issuing passports; administering applications for citizenship and lottery grants; enforcing censorship and gambling laws; registering births, deaths, marriages and civil unions; supplying support services to ministers; and advising the government on a range of relevant policies and issues. Other services provided by the department include a translation service, publication of the ''New Zealand Gazette'' (the official government newspaper), a flag hire service, management of VIP visits to New Zealand, running the Lake Taupō harbourmaster's office (under a special agreement with the local iwi) and the administration of offshore islands. History The Department of Internal Affairs traces its roots back to the Colonial Secretary's Office, which from the time New Zealand became a British colony, in 1840, was responsible for almost all central government d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
