Works
- a piece of Parkin (1980)
- Edmund Gosse (1985)
- A. A. Milne (1990)
- Waiting for the Party (biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett) (1991)
- The Ashton Affair (1995)
- Emily Tennyson: the Poet's Wife (1997)
- Glimpses of the Wonderful (biography of Philip Gosse) (2002)
- Passageways: The Story of a New Zealand Family (2009)
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“The discovery of Pennsylvania’s coal and iron was the deathblow to Allaire. The works were moved to Pennsylvania so hurriedly that for years pianos and the larger pieces of furniture stood in the deserted houses.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.”
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“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.”
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