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Robin Hyde

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33: 284: 274: 600: 558: 138: 586: 239:, Hyde had an affair with the Marton-based journalist Harry Lawson Smith. Their son, Derek Arden Challis, was born in Picton that October. Lawson Smith was married, and his only relationship with Hyde and their son was to provide sporadic maintenance payments. In time Hyde's mother learned of Derek's existence, but her father was never told. 572: 228:. However, she became frustrated at the lack of creative input, as the papers merely wanted a social column. Social columns or women's pages were the main outlet available to women journalists during the period. These experiences contributed to her treatise on journalism in New Zealand, 206:. Their son, Christopher Robin Hyde, was stillborn. She was to adopt the name 'Robin Hyde' as a 'nom de guerre', to preserve his memory. On her return to New Zealand in December 1926, she discovered that Frederick had married. Traumatised by the loss of her child, Hyde was hospitalised at 202:, she had a brief love affair with Harry Sweetman, who left her to travel to England. In 1926, in Rotorua for a holiday and treatment for her tubercular knee, Hyde had an affair with Frederick de Mulford Hyde. When Hyde fell pregnant, Frederick paid for her to have the child in 277: 184:. When she was 18, Hyde suffered a knee injury which required a hospital operation. Lameness and pain haunted her for the rest of her life. In 1925 she became a journalist for Wellington's 676: 681: 671: 651: 666: 217:
After a period of recovery, she began to write again, publishing poetry in several New Zealand newspapers in 1927. She was also engaged to write columns for the
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Hyde attempted to flee the area by walking along the railway lines and was eventually escorted by Japanese officials to the port city of
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newspaper, mostly writing for the women's pages. She continued to support herself through journalism throughout her life.
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and then cared for at the family home in Wellington, though only her mother knew of the pregnancy.
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where she was handed over to British authorities. Shortly after she resumed her journey to
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Memorial plaque dedicated to Robin Hyde in Dunedin, on the Writers' Walk on the Octagon
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to Europe. When the connection was delayed she made her way to Japanese-occupied
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Sculpture of Robin Hyde's words installed on the Wellington waterfront
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Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde) Online works in NZ Electronic Text Centre
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on 18 September 1938. She died by her own hand with an overdose of
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to an English father and an Australian mother, and was taken to
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New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre: Online works and articles
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before her first birthday. She had her secondary education at
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Real gold : treasures of Auckland City Libraries
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In early 1938 she left New Zealand and travelled to
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Manuscript of Robin Hyde's unpublished autobiography
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Cape Town
Cape Colony
Kensington
London
English
British subject
Wellington Girls' College
Victoria University of Wellington

South African
New Zealand
Cape Town
Wellington
Wellington Girls' College
Victoria University of Wellington
Dominion
Sydney, Australia
Queen Mary Hospital
Hanmer Springs
Christchurch
Auckland Libraries

Manuscript of Robin Hyde's unpublished autobiography

Hong Kong
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Kobe
Vladivostok
trans-Siberian railway

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