Ellen Margaret (Nelle) Scanlan, 1882–1968

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  • Kirstine Moffat

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v7i1.775

Abstract

Nelle Scanlan was the most popular New Zealand novelist of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly important for her pivotal role in creating a New Zealand market and readership for New Zealand fiction. Her Pencarrow novels were the first bestsellers written by a New Zealander, with a New Zealand setting, and appealing to the local market.

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Kirstine Moffat

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Published

2007-06-08

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2007): Kōtare : Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series One: ‘Women Prose Writers to World War I’

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