Publishing The Unpublished
Various attempts have been made over the years to publish some of the ten unpublished novels. McLeod describes how she and her colleague, Anita Segerburg, edited, in 1993-4, the unpublished Auckland novels, but says that it was not published due to permission being refused by Langley's daughter, Bisi.
Lucy Frost's Wilde Eve, another editing of the New Zealand novels, was published in 1999. In her introduction to this work, Frost writes "She was Eve Langley and Oscar Wilde, Australian woman and English man - poet caught in the woe of World War II and immortal, one of the ancients come again to life". Despite this, the Wilde obsession plays little part in the book, with Frost, herself, admitting that "the narrator's other is Steve, not Oscar Wilde", Steve being the name she uses for her first person narrator in The Pea-Pickers and other writings.
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