Research Catalog

Title

A Woman's life : writing by women about female experience in New Zealand / edited by Anne Else and Heather Roberts.

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roberts, Heather.
• Else, Anne.

Description

267 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• New Zealand literature > Women authors
• New Zealand literature > 20th century
• Women > New Zealand
• Women > New Zealand > Fiction
• New Zealand literature
• Women
• New Zealand

Genre/Form

Fiction.

Contents

• Introduction -- Taranga (from Wahine toa) / Patricia Grace -- Childhood (The reservoir / Janet Frame ; The woman next door / Joy Cowley ; The glory hole (from The godwits fly) / Robin Hyde ; Coronation day / Yvonne du Fresne ; New dresses / Katharine Mansfield) -- Adolescence (Such private things (from Dawn beloved) / Jean Devanny ; Little ease (from The godwits fly) / Robin Hyde ; On the outside looking in (from I passed this way) / Sylvia Ashton-Warner ; Show your father you love him (from Tooth and nail) / Mary Findlay).
• Sexual experience (Delicate blossoms (from Women in wartime) / Anonymous ; Leave me alone (from Stepping out) / Alison Gray ; Is this what sex is? (from A breed of women) / Fiona Kidman ; While it lasts (from Other halves) / Sue McCauley ; Never been kissed (from The edge of the alphabet) / Janet Frame ; Some remote region (from High country weather) / Lauris Edmond) -- Close relationships (He shouldn't have let me go (from Mutuwhenua) / Patricia Grace ; I want to see the world (from The story of a New Zealand river) / Jane Mander ; Hinemoa (from The old time Maori) / Makereti ; Husband and wife (from In revolt) / Edith Searle Grossman ; A sense odf alienation (from Foreigner) / Grace Morton, as told to Stanley Roche ; An easy companionship (from The love contract) / Margaret Sutherland ; The river / Yvonne du Fresne).
• Motherhood (Desperate remedies (from Tooth and nail) / Mary Findlay ; Between earth and sky / Patricia Grace ; I have this infant (from A home in this world) / Robin Hyde ; She hadn't died (from Death by adoption) / Patti Baker, as told to Joss Shawyer ; Hoki kino mai ra ki ahau (This is a bad homecoming: from Amiria: the life story of a Maori woman) / Amiria Manutahi Stirling, as told to Anne Salmond ; Puff adder / Fiona Kidman) -- Work (I wanted honey / 'Emily Morgan' [Sandra Coney] ; Am experienced cook-general (from Tooth and nail) / Mary Findlay ; Above all, simple and joyous (from A changing order) / Pauline O'Regan ; A few problems being the only girl / Colleen Brown, as told to Sandra Coney ; Young, female and unemployed / Rebecca Johnston ; A life's occupation (from The fledgling) / Margaret Sutherland ; Vegetable girls (from Islands) / Phyllis Gant ; The writing road (from I passed this way) / Sylvia Ashton-Warner).
• Old age (A gift of life / Dara McNaught ; Mother moves in (from Dilemma of dementia) / Julia Millen ; Of love and death: Matarena's story / Matarena Reneti, as told to Stanley Roche).

ISBN

• 0140106634
• 9780140106633

LCCN

90134642

OCLC

• ocm23082613
• 23082613
• SCSB-1968095

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library