In Softcovers, First Edition 2002, Colour Plates, Black and White Photographs, paintings, 125 Pages, Published By The Canterbury University Press Christchurch. A Near Fine Copy. 'During Rhona Haszard's short life she distinguished herself as a 'New Woman' whose social and sexual behaviour was highly controversial. She worked as an artist on the Channel Island of Sark, in France, Alexandria and London. She dressed eccentrically, recommended Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, spoke positively of de facto relationships and advocated vegetarianism and unprocessed food. Most significantly, she wanted to paint innovatively and professionally. Rhona was born in Thames in 1901, and her family lived in Auckland, Christchurch, Hokitika and Invercargill before, at age eighteen, she enrolled at Canterbury College School of Art, to work with fellow students Ngaio Marsh, Evelyn page, Rata Lovell-Smith and Olivia Spencer Bower. Even in this talented company Rhona established a promising reputation. Joanne Drayton's book examines the life and work of Rhona Haszard with great sensitivity, placing her in a fascinating and cosmopolitan social milieu and celebrating her vivid and compelling art'