The book of Iris
Subtitle: a life of Robin Hyde
By: Derek Challis & Gloria Rawlinson.
Contributors: Rawlinson, Gloria.
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 778
Subjects: Hyde, Robin, 1906-1939.; Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Biography.; Journalists -- New Zealand -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 751-768) and index.
"Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed, Iris Wilkinson (known as the writer Robin Hyde) led a short, tumultuous and incredibly productive life"--Jkt.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. A most unusual child; title: 2. Simone Purcell; title: 3. Harry; title: 4. Christopher Robin Hyde; title: 5. Hanmer woods; title: 6. John Schroder, master of words; title: 7. About the 'wee book'; title: 8. The most smuggled baby; title: 9. The lady editor; title: 10. The Grey Lodge; title: 11. Introducing Miss Methuselah; title: 12. 'Bronze Outlaw'; title: 13. 'Am I a cuttlefish good only for squirting ink?'; title: 14. 'Thine Accursed'; title: 15. Caught between the hinges; title: I6. 'The White Seat'; title: 17. 'I know what I am looking for'; title: I8. 'Where the joke comes in'; title: 19. 'A Night of Hell'; title: 20. 'Shiplights'; title: 2I. I travel alone; title: 22. 'Unbeaten and unbroken'; title: 23. 'Special for you'; title: 24. Paradox at Hsuchow; title: 25. 'China is floating past me'; title: 26. Little China; title: 27. 'An idea in the minds of men'; title: 28. One straw too many; title: Notes; title: Sources; title: Published works of Robin Hyde.