The Rowan Gibbs Book Collection
Thursday, 16 November - Thursday, 14 December 2023
Simpson Norah - The Secret Lakes
Estimate $70 - $100
Realised: $35 plus premium
Lot Details
Unpublished fiction. 240 leaves, 4 to carbon typescript with manuscript corrections and 2 leaves of “suggested changes”; unbound. No date – possibly 1940. Norah Simpson from “Teremakau Settlement” wrote newspaper stories in the 1930s and was a member of the N.Z. Women Writers’ Society. Remains unpublished.