Spinster - Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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The story of a single teacher working in a largely Maori school in the Bay of Plenty. Spinster is also an account of Anna Vorontosov’s emotional involvement with her pupils, a fellow teacher, the inspector who praises her reading scheme, and the shadowy lover Eugene.

See the account of how groundbreaking this novel was in the biographical note at Te Pou Muramura Read NZ.

Martin Secker and Warburg, 1958. This copy a fifth impression (1960 reprint). Hardback, 270 pages. Dust jacket. 

Condition: secondhand hardback in excellent condition. Dust jacket in very good condition. Front inside flap of dust jacket has a cut corner. Former owner’s name and “Melbourne 1964” inscribed on inside page.