Ngaio Marsh Her Life in Crime

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by Joanne Drayton


  Shadbolt, Maurice, ‘Dame Ngaio Marsh: Shakespearian Queen of Crime’, Reader’s Digest, Vol. 101, January 1973, pp. 34-39.

  Stevens, Joan, ‘Ngaio Marsh: artist in crime’, New Zealand Listener, 8 May 1972, p. 13, Reference No: 77-067-3/4, ATL, Wellington.

  Thompson, Mervyn, ‘On the death of Ngaio Marsh’, Landfall, No. 144, December 1982, pp. 442-46.

  Watt, J.O.P., ‘Ngaio Marsh novelist with versatile gifts’, The Sunday Times, 25 January 1947, n.p., Reference No: 77-067-3/4, ATL, Wellington.

  W.G.S., ‘Descended from pirates: Ngaio Marsh’, Books and Bookmen, June 1960, pp. 7-9.

  UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

  Catchpole, Julie, ‘The Group’, MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 1984.

  Greene, Rosemary, ‘Ngaio, the Writer—As Seen From a Secretary’s Viewpoint’, speech given at the ‘Return to Black Beech: Centenary Symposium on Ngaio Marsh 1895-1995’, Christchurch, 1995, n.p.

  Gibbs, Rowan and Richard Williams, ‘Ngaio Marsh: A bibliography’, Scunthorpe, 1990.

  Harding, Bruce, ‘The Janus Problem: A search for patterns in life and fiction of Dame Ngaio Marsh’, MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 1979.

  James, P.D., ‘P.D., James on Ngaio Marsh’, an address given by the Baroness James of Holland Park on the centenary of Ngaio Marsh’s birth, London, 27 April 1995.

  Pitts, Pricilla with Evelyn Page, extract from an interview conducted at the artist’s home in Thorndon, Wellington, May 1982.

  INTERVIEWS

  Bell, Brian, interview with author, Sydney, 3 October 2007.

  Crabtree (née Mannings), Jean, interview with author, Tauranga, 26 August 2007.

  Dacres-Mannings, John, interview with author, Sydney, 4 October 2007.

  Douglass, Malcolm and Judie, interview with author, Christchurch, 14 July 2007.

  Elsom, Jonathan, interview with author, Sydney, 6 October 2007.

  Facer, Annette, interview with author, Warrington, 16 July 2007.

  Farquhar, David, interview with Douglas Munro, Wellington, 25 May 2001.

  Fox, Richard and Ginx, interview with author, Turangi, 9 December 2007.

  Greene, Rosemary, interview with author, Christchurch, 11 July 2007.

  Harding, Bruce, interview with author, Christchurch, 21 March 2007.

  Harding, Bruce, voice recording, ‘Reflections on Ngaio Marsh (and interviews with Ngaio Marsh, 7 and 24 April 1978)’, Christchurch, 23 December 2007.

  Hooper, Elric, interview with author, Christchurch, 21 March 2007.

  Lascelles, Gerald, interview with author, Christchurch, 19 December 2007.

  Laurie, Alison, interview with author, Paikakariki, 10 February 2008.

  Mannings, Roy, interview with author, Tauranga, 8 February 2008.

  McVeigh, Cilla, interview with author, Christchurch, 12 July 2007.

  Munro, Donald, interview with author, Wellington, 22 November 2007.

  Scott, Bob, interview with author, Auckland, 27 February 2007.

  Walton, Deborah, interview with author, Renwick, 9 July 2007.

  Webb (née Reay), Barbara, interview with author, Christchurch, 23 March 2007.

  Wilkinson [Carter], Joy, interview with author, Golden Bay, 7 July 2007.

  Wilson, Charlotte, interview with author, Wellington, 12 July 2006.

  PERIODICALS

  New Zealand Listener, 1940-1982. Art in New Zealand, 1928-1947.

  INTERNET WEBSITES

  http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Christchurch/ Heritage/ChristchurchOverviewHistory

  Project/Christchurch Overview History Draft Report, Part 06.pdf

  http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Heritage/Chronology/Year/1897.asp

  Notes

  AAG Auckland Art Gallery

  AF Annette Facer

  ATL Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.

  BB Black Beech and Honeydew

  CAG Christchurch Art Gallery

  DM Doris McIntosh

  DO Dorothy Olding

  EW Elizabeth Walter

  GL Gerald Lascelles

  HC HarperCollins

  JB John Balfour

  JE Jonathan Elsom

  JS John Schroder

  MB Maureen Balfour

  NCP New Canterbury Pilgrim, articles for The Press

  NM Ngaio Marsh

  NZL New Zealand Listener

  Chapter One

  A Cradle in a Grave

  13 [smell] of damp newsprint NM, ‘Birth of a Sleuth’, The Writer, April 1977, p. 23.

  14 I couldn’t put it down BB, p. 217.

  16 Graham’s became the world’s Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure, pp. 3-4.

  17 After 18 years Ibid, p. 29.

  17 In fact, crime writer Symons, Bloody Murder, p. 54.

  18 Taking everything into consideration Haycraft (ed.), The Art of the Mystery Story, p. 89.

  18 I tried to get it published Quoted in Hume, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, p. vii.

  19 It is my belief, Watson Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, p. 138.

  21 When I was dissatisfied Quoted in Mann, Deadlier Than the Male, pp. 84-85.

  25 the Fairy Godmother Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure, p. xxi.

  25 I thought it would be fun ‘Dame Ngaio: Detective fiction writer’, 10 Mar 1978, BBC, British Sound Archives, British Library, London.

  25 attractive, civilised man NM, ‘Birth of a Sleuth,’ p. 24.

  26 When the moralists Mann, Deadlier Than the Male, p. 209.

  26 perfect specimen ‘A Passionate Affair: Ngaio Marsh’, 29 May 2001, BBC, British Sound Archives, British Library, London.

  26 she exemplifies Mann, Deadlier Than the Male, pp. 221, 224, 226.

  26 a looker on ‘Ngaio Marsh: London revisited’, 26 Sep 1949, BBC, British Sound Archives, British Library, London.

  27 I guess I fell in love ‘Dame Ngaio: Detective fiction writer’.

  27 We were bewilderingly gay BB, p. 200.

  28 bandwagon…‘rebore’ and fresh ‘coat of paint’ BB, pp. 166, 197.

  29 I know of no experience NCP, 1 Sep 1928, p. 13.

  29 a queer little backwater Bowen, Drawn from Life: A memoir, Sydney, Picador, 1999, p. 4.

  29 They are brilliantly painted NCP, 1 Sep 1928, p. 13.

  30 The audience at the opera NCP, 22 Sep 1928, p. 13.

  30 Australians who wanted Ibid.

  31 I remember Mr J H Curle’s contention NCP, 20 Oct 1928, p. 13.

  31 aboriginals who have seen NCP, 22 Sep 1928, p. 13.

  31 a grinning kaffir boy NCP, 20 Oct 1928, p. 13.

  32 There seems to have been no thought BB, p. 189.

  32 old Curfew bell NCP, 17 Nov 1928, p. 13.

  32 Just before dawn BB, p. 195.

  32 There is the same fascination here NCP, 15 Dec 1928, p. 17.

  33 This, Londoners say Ibid.

  33 As we gathered way NCP, 18 May 1929, p. 15.

  33 A domestic roulette BB, p. 204.

  33 grey and nasty NCP, 22 Dec 1928, p. 13.

  34 baby blues and pinks, BB, p. 206.

  34 Roulette in extremis NCP, 22 Dec 1928, p. 13.

  34 I usually start with a group of people ‘Dame Ngaio: Detective fiction writer’.

  34 She is over middle-age NCP, 22 Dec 1928, p. 13.

  35 entirely new to me BB, p. 208.

  35 We chose a table Ibid, p. 207.

  35 We separated Ibid.

  35 [Christchurch…rumours] Information from conversations with Bruce Harding (21 Mar 2007) and Gerald Lascelles (22 Mar 2007).

  35 [They] called us NCP, 22 Dec 1928, p. 13.

  35 I suddenly found BB, p. 209.

  36 We are in the middle NCP, 27 Apr 1929, p. 13.

  36 thin morning mist NCP, 25 May 1929, p. 15.

  36 crammed with rich cars NCP, 27 Apr 1929, p. 13.

  36 some extremely humble job BB, p. 25.

  36 The verger NCP, 20 April 1929, p. 13.

  37 richly turned-out automaton NCP, 6 Jul 1929, p. 13.

  37 The Su
ltan of Zanzibar NCP, 17 Aug 1929, p. 13.

  37 environs of Paris NCP, 28 Sep 1929, p. 13.

  37 is the biggest room NCP, 9 Nov 1929, p. 17.

  38 I have become a shopkeeper NCP, ‘Shops, Houses and Theatres’, [undated cutting, c. 1930], MS-Group-1635, ATL, Wellington.

  38 In respect of dogs BB, p. 211.

  38 We became slightly less amateurish Ibid, p. 212.

  39 raked by a cold wind NCP, 20 Apr 1929, p. 13.

  39 I saw a dramatization BB, p. 202.

  39 students, labourers Ibid.

  40 demand that the drama Brown (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, p. 390.

  40 smell of the West End BB, p. 196.

  40 ‘Uncles’ was the smart Ibid, p. 202.

  40-41 Sometimes the Prince of Wales Ibid, p. 201.

  42 a number of secretaryships Ibid, p. 213.

  43 at the top of his formidable Ibid, p. 133.

  43 [Tokareff’s death] Peter Tokareff, J 46, cor1919/1272, Archives New Zealand, Wellington.

  Chapter Two

  The Theatre of Death

  44 cruelly and as excruciatingly BB, p. 220.

  45 The roof leaked ‘Edward Seager—pioneer therapist’, New Zealand Heritage, Vol. 2, p. 625.

  45 Puck-like BB, pp. 28-29.

  47 ‘They aren’t really fighting Ibid, p. 32.

  47 [International Exhibition] The International Exhibition was held at Hagley Park, the venue costing £90,000 to construct, and the event attracting 1,900,000 visitors over a six-month period. The site included an art gallery, concert hall, machinery hall, fernery, and Maori pa complete with fortifications.

  47 [Dickens books] Harding, ‘The Janus Problem’, unpubl MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 1979, pp. 16-19.

  48 From the beginning BB, p. 49.

  49 How superb Ibid, p. 37.

  49 We bought a tin Ibid, p. 53.

  49 had a poor ear Ibid, p. 62.

  50 To say that I took Ibid, p.71.

  50 Eng. Lit. Ibid, pp. 74-75.

  51 To my amazement Ibid, p. 76.

  51 I showed it to my friends Ibid, p. 81.

  52 Is there such a thing Ibid, p. 173.

  52 Whatever I may write Ibid, pp. 32-33.

  52 on a warm evening Ibid, p. 219.

  52 Most of us Ibid, p. 220.

  53 with his hand shaking Ibid, p. 220.

  54 Mr. Marsh’s manipulation Quoted in Bruce Harding, ‘Ngaio Marsh’, Mystery and Suspense Writers: The literature of crime, detection, and espionage, Vol. 2, (ed. Robin W. Winks), Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1998.

  54 trying to get the smell BB, p. 220.

  56 If you long above everything Ibid, p. 215.

  57 [When] we built a hut Ibid, p. 221.

  58 [The Canterbury Society of Arts] Kirker, New Zealand Women Artists, p. 64.

  58 [fellow pupils] Canterbury College School of Art: Evelyn Page enrolled in 1915, Rata Lovell-Smith in 1917, Rhona Haszard in 1919.

  58 Life at an Art School Southland Girls’ High School Magazine, 1921.

  59 a lithe, slim figure Greener, ‘Rhona Haszard—her tragic death: youth at the threshold of fame’, New Zealand Free Lance, 4 Mar 1931, E. H. McCormick Research Library, AAG.

  59 It had never occurred to me BB, p. 98.

  59 [Ngaio’s awards] Canterbury College School of Art Records, School of Fine Arts Library, University of Canterbury.

  59 [Ngaio’s exhibitions] Hearnshaw and King, ‘Ngaio Marsh painting’, Art New Zealand, No. 78, Autumn 1996, p. 79.

  59 It was a tiny room Extract from an interview conducted by Pricilla Pitts with Evelyn Page in May 1982 at the artist’s home in Thorndon, Wellington.

  60 There [was no] deliberate attitude Catchpole, ‘The Group’, unpublished MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 1984, p. 5.

  60 We invited Pitts interview with Page, May 1982. Quoted in Catchpole, ‘The Group’, p. 3.

  61 [Ngaio’s exhibitions] Hearnshaw and King, ‘Ngaio Marsh painting’, p. 79.

  62 I spent three months BB, p. 221.

  63 startlingly realistic Ibid, p. 222.

  63 An actress Ibid, p. 223.

  64 the imposing Temple of Truth Richard S. Hill, ‘Worthington, Arthur Bently 1847-1917’, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.

  65 To this day BB, p. 14

  65 Death is never James, ‘P.D. James on Ngaio Marsh’, an address given by Baroness James of Holland Park on the centenary of Ngaio Marsh’s birth, London, 27 Apr 1995, p. 3.

  67 The opening night of Hamlet BB, p. 123.

  68 I obtained the address Ibid, pp. 127-28.

  68 Your father Ibid, pp. 134-35.

  69 On a warm autumn morning Ibid, p. 136.

  69 I learnt how actors Ibid, p. 142.

  69 Without knowing it Ibid, p. 153.

  69-70 I, however, persisted Ibid, p. 147.

  70 On a wet night Ibid, p. 154.

  70 It wasn’t easy Ibid, pp. 155-56.

  70 I heard myself saying Ibid, p. 156.

  70 She was unable to discover Ibid, p. 157.

  71 My mother must have Ibid, p. 161.

  71 Jimmy discovered Ibid.

  71 There were to be other tours Ibid, p. 154.

  71-72 [Susan Max] ‘Dame Ngaio: detective fiction writer’.

  73 Readers in the golden years James, ‘P.D. James on Ngaio Marsh’, p. 2.

  73 On my return Ibid, p. 228.

  Chapter Three

  Companions in Crime

  76 It started off rather grandly 91-051, ATL, Wellington.

  78 I get a feeling ‘A Passionate Affair: Ngaio Marsh’, 29 May 2001, BBC, British Sound Archives, British Library, London.

 

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