Case W6
- Helen Wilson
Helen Wilson. Moonshine. 2nd edition. Hamilton: Paul's Book Arcade, 1956.
A leading figure in the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Helen Mary Wilson (1869-1957) was a farmer and teacher who became a writer in later years.
Her novel Moonshine, written in the 1930s, was published in 1944, but it was her autobiography My first eighty years (1950) which brought her acclaim. This work is a detailed, retrospective account of life in rural and small-town New Zealand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially farming life. Another novel, Land of my children, followed.
Her mother, Emma Ostler, was a prominent temperance advocate and suffragist in Levin. Helen Wilson was not actively involved in the suffrage movement but was a sympathiser and signed the petition of 1892.
Helen Wilson. Land of my children. Hamilton: Paul's Book Arcade, 1955.
A leading figure in the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Helen Mary Wilson (1869-1957) was a farmer and teacher who became a writer in later years.
Her novel Moonshine, written in the 1930s, was published in 1944, but it was her autobiography My first eighty years (1950) which brought her acclaim. This work is a detailed, retrospective account of life in rural and small-town New Zealand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially farming life. Another novel, Land of my children, followed.
Her mother, Emma Ostler, was a prominent temperance advocate and suffragist in Levin. Helen Wilson was not actively involved in the suffrage movement but was a sympathiser and signed the petition of 1892.
Helen Wilson. My first eighty years. Hamilton: Paul's Book Arcade, 1950.
A leading figure in the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Helen Mary Wilson (1869-1957) was a farmer and teacher who became a writer in later years.
Her novel Moonshine, written in the 1930s, was published in 1944, but it was her autobiography My first eighty years (1950) which brought her acclaim. This work is a detailed, retrospective account of life in rural and small-town New Zealand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially farming life. Another novel, Land of my children, followed.
Her mother, Emma Ostler, was a prominent temperance advocate and suffragist in Levin. Helen Wilson was not actively involved in the suffrage movement but was a sympathiser and signed the petition of 1892.
