Vincent Pyke (born Pike), 1827–1894
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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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