Story and photos by Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson We present an addition to our Art and Writing section: This Fair Work: Emma Jane Hill Scrapbook 1826-1880. Browse the introduction below, then visit the feature to view the scrapbook’s contents. Introduction It is a mystery. A hardbound notebook, 204 x 160mm, many of its 160 Read More…
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Five Venturesome Women in a Bullock Cart
‘I believe I was at that time the only girl in all Taranaki who ever wrote a line.’ Emily Harris’s words, written years after the events they describe, are still electrifying. A young woman, writing poetry, in wartime Taranaki? Who knew. She goes on: ‘I did write some verses in the evening but never showed Read More…