Robin Hyde

Robin Hyde, whose real name was Iris Guiver Wilkinson, was born on 19 January 1906 in Cape Town and arrived in Wellington as a baby. A pupil at Wellington Girls' College, she lived mainly by journalism, at the Dominion from 1925 and then on other papers, pushing against the limits set for women. A poet published by Macmillan in 1935 and a novelist, she became in 1938 the first woman journalist at the Sino-Japanese front, then went to England. She died in London on 23 August 1939, aged thirty-three.

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• NovelThe Godwits FlyRobin Hyde · 1938Literature