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Under the Covers - Episode Three
Television (Excerpts) – 2010
The official history of New Zealand literature involves the long struggle for a local voice to emerge and then to be appreciated. The trouble is when just such a voice emerged in the form of Jane Mander at the dawn of the 20th century, it was largely dismissed as insufficiently British or Victorian.– Finlay Macdonald, in his opening
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