Hyde, Robin, 1906-1939

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Dates:
Birth 1906-01-19
Death 1939-08-23
New Zealanders,
English,

Biographical notes:

Iris Wilkinson was born in South Africa and came to New Zealand as an infant. She was educated in Wellington. After she left school, she worked for a while as a journalist on The Dominion newspaper. She began writing seriously after suffering permanent injury in an accident, working mainly as a freelance writer, using the pseudonym, Robin Hyde. Her verse and prose was widely published by New Zealand and Australian papers. Her first publication The Desolate State, a small volume of poetry, appeared in 1934 and her first volume of prose, Journalese in the same year. She developed quickly as a writer, publishing 5 prose works and 2 volumes of verse between 1936 and 1938. She died in London on 23 August 1939.

From the description of Bronze outlaw : a New Zealand soldier's story. [1930-36?] (National Library of New Zealand - Wellington Service Centre). WorldCat record id: 228162128

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Subjects:

  • Depressions
  • Journalists
  • New Zealand poetry
  • Poets, New Zealand
  • Women poets, New Zealand

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  • Poets

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  • New Zealand (as recorded)
  • New Zealand (as recorded)