Rebellion

C.K. Stead

  • I passed this way by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
    Virago, 499 pp, £12.00, October 1980, ISBN 0 86068 160 2
  • Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
    Virago, 269 pp, £2.95, October 1980, ISBN 0 86068 161 0
  • Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
    Virago, 224 pp, £2.95, October 1980, ISBN 0 86068 162 9

Katherine Mansfield was born in 1888, Sylvia Ashton-Warner in 1908 and Janet Frame in 1924 – three New Zealand women each of whom has achieved some measure of literary fame or reputation outside the country in which she was born. They have in common that they have worked uneasily in (and always breaking out of) the fictional mode. The fictions of all three are forms of autobiography while autobiography tends towards fiction. It is the self they are struggling always to define, or to create, and the self is founded on fact but not exclusively composed of it.

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