JANE MANDER (1877–1949) was a pioneering journalist and novelist, remembered for The Story of a New Zealand River, about an Englishwoman who has to adjust to living in an isolated timber-mill settlement. Polly Hoskins (editor), graduated MA with distinction in English at the University of Canterbury, and was president of the Drama Society. She won the Howard McNaughton Prize in Cultural Studies (2016) and a university Blue for literature (2019). She is the author of Ngaio Marsh’s Hamlet: the 1943 production script.