Mary Jane Mander was a New Zealand novelist and journalist.
10 Facts About Jane Mander
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Jane Mander was a pioneer sawmiller and later purchased The Northern Advocate newspaper where she honed her skills as a journalist.
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Jane Mander became editor of the Dargaville North Auckland Times in 1907.
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Jane Mander joined the suffrage movement in New York, campaigning for the state referendum on women's franchise.
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In 1923 Jane Mander moved to London and worked for the Harrison Press of Paris.
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Jane Mander wrote numerous essays and short stories, and acted as a London correspondent for multiple New Zealand newspapers.
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Jane Mander completed another novel, but had it destroyed after it was rejected by a publisher.
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Jane Mander's health failing, she returned to New Zealand in 1932 where she looked after her elderly father.
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Jane Mander attempted to write her seventh novel but only managed a few articles and reviews until her death in Whangarei in 1949 at the age of 72.
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In March 1937 Jane Mander gave hand-corrected typescripts of four of her novels - The strange attraction, Allen Adair, The besieging city and Pins and pinnacles - to the Library.