5 Aug 2011

The Vault - Dame Ngaio Marsh

From The Vault, 3:20 pm on 5 August 2011

Ngaio Marsh, 1936-1937?, Christchurch, by William Baverstock. Purchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa (O.020610).

Ngaio Marsh, photographed 1930s. Ref: PAColl-0326-04. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.

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Ngaio Marsh. Taken by an unknown photographer in the 1940s. Ref: 1/2-144512-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Frank Sargeson and Ngaio Marsh walking out of Katherine Mansfield Memorial Park in 1965.Ref: 1/2-038572-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

The familiar voice of Dame Ngaio Marsh – leading crime fiction writer and Shakespearian producer. She sends a personal message on an acetate disc and reveals the tricks of her trade as a dramatist and a writer.

The Vault - Dame Ngaio Marsh

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