Jane Mander, 1877–1949

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  • Philip Steer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v7i1.774

Abstract

Jane Mander is a novelist whose work was published between the World Wars. She overcame the geographic isolation of her birthplace and the limitations of her education to pursue academic studies and a literary career overseas. Leaving New Zealand on a scholarship in her thirties, she published six novels while living in New York and London. She was also a prolific journalist, reviewer and literary critic for various New Zealand newspapers, and she continued these roles on her return to New Zealand in the early 1930s.

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Philip Steer

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Published

2007-06-08