Research Catalog

Title

The selected letters of Mary Hobhouse / edited by Shirley Tunnicliff.

Author

Hobhouse, Mary.

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tunnicliff, Shirley.
• New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch.

Description

121 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

"Torn between her love of England and her duty to her husband, Mary Hobhouse, wife of the first Anglican bishop of Nelson, was a prolific and highly articulate letter writer. In these private letters -- which are full of national figures and events, as well as fascinating domestic detail -- Mary reveals herself as a sensitive and intelligent woman endeavouring to recreate a quintessentially Anglican community in the antipodes. Her sharp eye for detail and lively humour and compassion make these letters an important contribution to our understanding of New Zealand's colonial past." -- Back cover.

Uniform Title

Correspondence. Selections

Alternative Title

Correspondence.

Subject

• Hobhouse, Mary, 1819-1864
• Hobhouse, Edmund, 1817-
• Church of the Province of New Zealand > Clergy > Biography
• Spouses of clergy > New Zealand > Nelson > Correspondence
• Women in church work > New Zealand > Nelson > Church of the Province of New Zealand > Correspondence
• Pioneers > New Zealand > Nelson > Correspondence
• Nelson (N.Z.) > History

Genre/Form

• History
• Records and correspondence
• History.
• Records and correspondence.

Note

• "Mary Hobhouse arrived in New Zealand in March 1859, the wife of the first bishop of Nelson ... [her] letters were written to people ... who were on the other side of the world"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [120]-121).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0908896115

LCCN

zbn92009842^

OCLC

• 34741356
• SCSB-12153123

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library