Edith Searle Grossmann, 1863–1931
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Edith Searle Grossmann wrote the two most significant New Zealand novels to come out of the nineteenth-century women’s movement. In Revolt and A Knight of the Holy Ghost are powerful critiques of gender inequities, in spite of their didacticism and melodramatic excess.
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