Accidental Life by Phoebe Meikle

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Condition: Good - Cover worn.

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Publisher: Auckland University Press : , 1994,

Dimensions: 23cm, 311 pages

SKU: 808x

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Book Description:

As a teacher, lecturer, publisher and friend, Phoebe Meikle has in a long and not always accidental life, touched many. Her autobiography is filled with other people but it is also the eloquent story of a fitted, courageous and determined woman. Poverty and illness often loom but enthusiasms and affections keep them firmly in their place; so do the love of wards and the satisfactions of work. Phoebe Meikle writes engagingly of her childhood in Tauranga, education in Auckland, twin careers as teacher, for many years at Takapuna Grammar, and publisher, with Blackwood Paul and Longman Pual. Not only did she reach the peak of these professions, at a time when other would have been unusual for a woman; she also became a respected public figure, speaking throughout New Zealand (and in Britain) as a feminist and a pacifist as well as an educationist. In describing these events she is moving and honest,a dressing ideas as well as relationships, emotions as well as happenings. She gives us in Accidental Life a remarkable testament and a model to aspire to. .