Robin Hyde (Iris Wilkinson), 1906-1939

Authors

  • Mary Edmond-Paul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v7i1.779

Abstract

Robin Hyde, poet, novelist, journalist, is now acknowledged as a major figure in New Zealand twentieth-century culture, although the literary nationalist group that became prominent in New Zealand in the late thirties and early forties temporarily eclipsed her reputation. Hyde had an immensely productive short life but the self-doubt and anxiety that had plagued her were exacerbated by the social isolation of London and she committed suicide there at the age of thirty-three.

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Author Biography

Mary Edmond-Paul

References

Rawlinson, Gloria. ‘Robin Hyde and The Godwits Fly.’ In: Critical Essays on the New Zealand Novel. Edited by C. Hankin. Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books, 1976.

Bunkle, Phyllida, Jackie Matthews and Linda Hardy. ‘Who is the Real Robin Hyde?’ Broadsheet, 126 (Jan/Feb 1985): 22-26.

Price, Chris. ‘The Childish Empire and the Empire of Children: Colonial and Alternative Dominions in Robin Hyde’s Check to Your King and Wednesday’s Children.’ In: Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing. Edited by Mark Williams and Michele Leggott. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.

Leggott, Michele. ‘Opening the Archive: Robin Hyde; Eileen Duggan and the Persistence of Record.’ Hecate 20:2 (1994): 193-216; reprinted in Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing. Eds.Williams and Leggott. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.

Murray, Stuart. ‘Robin Hyde: Not for Ordinary Purposes.’ In: Never a Soul at Home: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the 1930s. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1998.

Paul, Mary. Her Side of the Story : Readings of Mander, Mansfield & Hyde. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1999.

Challis, D. A., and Gloria Rawlinson. The Book of Iris: A Biography of Robin Hyde. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.

Evans, Patrick. ‘Robin Hyde and the Postcolonial Sublime.’ Landfall,204 (Nov 2002): 38-45.

Edmond-Paul, Mary. Lighted Windows: Critical essays on Robin Hyde’. Forthcoming mid-2008 Otago University Press.

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Published

2007-06-08