Vincent Pyke (born Pike), 1827–1894

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  • Daphne Lawless

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v7i2.661

Abstract

Vincent Pyke’s main contribution to the history of colonial New Zealand was as a politician, a tireless advocate for the Central Otago goldfields and their mining and smallholding population. It is from that experience that he drew much of the inspiration for his fiction. Although described by modern critics as ‘crude’, ‘simple’, and ‘melodramatic’, his works hold the distinction of being some of the earliest New Zealand-produced and New Zealand-themed fiction to find a mass market in New Zealand itself.

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Daphne Lawless

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Published

2008-06-07

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2008): Kōtare : Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’

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