| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some colour) |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Contents; Red Letter Day; Obscure Individuals; Dear Oliver; How to Read a Letter; The Coming Out Letter; To Whom It May Concern; How to Write a Letter; The Business Letter; Polly; What's in a Name?; Local Hero; Dear Heroix; Silence Like a Bruise; The Failure of Language; Afterword; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Northe family tree; Copyright |
| Summary |
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier earthquake of 1931 and the Depression. They rose from servant status to the comforts of the middle class. There was army desertion, suicide, adultery, AIDS, secrets and lies. There was also success, prosperity and social status. In digging deep into their stories, examining letters from the past and writing a letter to the future, Peter Wells constructs a novel and striking way to view the history of Pākehā New Zealanders |
| Notes |
Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title may not be functional. Nz |
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Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in epub. Nz |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Wells, Peter, 1950-2019 -- Family
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Wells, Bess, 1916-2017.
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North family.
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Northe family -- Correspondence
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| SUBJECT |
North family fast |
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Wells, Peter, 1950-2019 fast |
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HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
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Families
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Napier (N.Z.) -- Genealogy
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New Zealand -- Genealogy
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New Zealand -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116353
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| Subject |
New Zealand
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New Zealand -- Napier
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| Genre/Form |
Genealogy
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Personal correspondence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018379868 |
| ISBN |
9780994147370 |
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0994147376 |
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0994147368 |
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9780994147363 |
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