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Harris's professional artistic development and success was constrained by family obligations, straitened finances and the conventions of her time. However, in 1924 the
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Harris was the second daughter of five children of Sarah Hill and her husband Edwin Harris. The Harris family emigrated from
England on the "William Bryan", a ship of the Plymouth Company of New Zealand. They reached New Zealand on 31 March 1841. Harris' father was a civil engineer and surveyor as
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she returned to Nelson where she joined her sisters in running a small primary school and giving private lessons in music, dancing and drawing. She continued to paint but sales of her work were never sufficient to allow her to give up teaching to concentrate on her art full-time. In 1890 Harris
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purchased the manuscript in London in 1970. The book contains eight poems written by Harris, as well as "30 bound signatures, each featuring a watercolour of alpine flora and a facing page of typewritten text". Harris had hoped the book would be published in
England by her cousin
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