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Judge Ward : an 'infamous' New Zealand colonist and his two celebrity wives / by Geoff Adams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dunedin, N.Z. : G. Adams, 2011Description: 375 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1461092213
  • 9781461092216
Contained works:
  • Talbot, Thorpe, 1850-1923. Guinevere in the South
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 993.02092 22
Review: "Three fascinating figures from Victorian New Zealand are portrayed in this study. ... Dudley Ward was an early MP, becoming a controversial Judge who presided over a number of sensational cases in the courts ... his first wife, Anne, was the first president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and helped women get the vote in 1893 .... Thorpe Talbot the Judge's mistress, was a prize-winning novelist, journalist and poet, who married Judge Dudley Ward in later life. The second part of this book analyses her writing and includes a full transcript of her 'long-lost' novel called Guinevere in the South, which has been located as a lengthy epic poem" -- Back cover.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 993.02092 WAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A491117B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-368) and index.

"Three fascinating figures from Victorian New Zealand are portrayed in this study. ... Dudley Ward was an early MP, becoming a controversial Judge who presided over a number of sensational cases in the courts ... his first wife, Anne, was the first president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and helped women get the vote in 1893 .... Thorpe Talbot the Judge's mistress, was a prize-winning novelist, journalist and poet, who married Judge Dudley Ward in later life. The second part of this book analyses her writing and includes a full transcript of her 'long-lost' novel called Guinevere in the South, which has been located as a lengthy epic poem" -- Back cover.

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