Louisa Alice Baker, 1856-1926

Authors

  • Kirstine Moffat

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v7i1.771

Abstract

Louisa Baker was the first New Zealand woman to succeed in making a career out of writing novels, publishing seventeen books between 1894 and 1910. Significantly, this success was only possible when Baker left New Zealand to pursue her literary career in England, a departure that later authors, such as Jane Mander and Katherine Mansfield, were to follow.

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Kirstine Moffat

References

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Published

2007-06-08