Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson Recent gigs at the Alexander Turnbull Library and Te Papa continue bringing Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris to new and enthusiastic audiences. We were invited to address the Friday morning online staff meeting of the Alexander Turnbull Library to talk about our research in their collections. Read More…
Month: May 2025
Another door opens: Margaret Jeffery (1910-1992)
Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson And then there is the family novelist. Harris descendant Richard Silcock, sorting through boxes in storage, came across a newspaper article written by his aunt Margaret Jeffery in 1962. The article, a full front page of the New Zealand Herald’s weekend magazine, including three photographs of Margaret, is a vivid Read More…
Blind seeing and beyond: how we approached Groundwork
Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson Thank you to book editor Claire Mabey for commissioning this article, which first appeared on The Spinoff on 3 May 2005. *** Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris (who was born in England in 1837 and who died in Nelson in 1925) by Michele Leggott (poet) and Read More…
New Zealand Liliaceae at Te Papa
Catherine Field-Dodgson and Michele Leggott We’re excited to reveal that Emily Harris’s 1906 New Zealand Liliaceae panel is now in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The museum was the successful bidder in the auction at Webb’s in January and the painting has been fully registered with its own accession number. Emily’s Read More…