Often these were tales of individual courage and fortitude, depicting a frontier world constrained by imported values, and poorly governed by males who were too-frequently absent, whether physically, or emotionally and spiritually. In general, early writing by women dealt with relationships within the domestic sphere. While it wasn’t an intended outcome, the division of these volumes of biography according to each subject’s sex does emphasise the different preoccupations of early New Zealand’s male and female authors. This edition of Kotare follows Kotare 2007.1: ‘Women Prose Writers to World War I’.
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