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The book of Iris : a life of Robin Hyde
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The book of Iris : a life of Robin Hyde

Author: Derek Challis; Gloria Rawlinson
Publisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English
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Named Person: Robin Hyde
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Derek Challis; Gloria Rawlinson
ISBN: 1869402677 9781869402679
OCLC Number: 50198439
Notes: "Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed, Iris Wilkinson (known as the writer Robin Hyde) led a short, tumultuous and incredibly productive life"--Jkt.
Description: xxii, 778 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: I. A most unusual child -- 2. Simone Purcell -- 3. Harry -- 4. Christopher Robin Hyde -- 5. Hanmer woods -- 6. John Schroder, master of words -- 7. About the 'wee book' -- 8. The most smuggled baby -- 9. The lady editor -- 10. The Grey Lodge -- 11. Introducing Miss Methuselah -- 12. 'Bronze Outlaw' -- 13. 'Am I a cuttlefish good only for squirting ink?' -- 14. 'Thine Accursed' -- 15. Caught between the hinges -- I6. 'The White Seat' -- 17. 'I know what I am looking for' -- I8. 'Where the joke comes in' -- 19. 'A Night of Hell' -- 20. 'Shiplights' -- 2I. I travel alone -- 22. 'Unbeaten and unbroken' -- 23. 'Special for you' -- 24. Paradox at Hsuchow -- 25. 'China is floating past me' -- 26. Little China -- 27. 'An idea in the minds of men' -- 28. One straw too many -- Notes -- Sources -- Published works of Robin Hyde.
Responsibility: Derek Challis & Gloria Rawlinson.
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