around the kauri gum-digging industry. It centered on the hero's struggle against the middle-class aspirations of his family. Her next two novels, The Besieging City (1926) and Pins and Pinnacles (1928), were set in New York and Paris respectively. She also completed another novel, but had it destroyed after it was rejected by a publisher. Her health failing, she returned to New Zealand in 1932 where she looked after her elderly father. She 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. There is a substantial Jane Mander collection held at Auckland Libraries. In March 1937 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. At the same time, she also donated copies of the first edition of her earliest and most famous novel, The story of a New Zealand river. In the early 1970s Dorothea Turner arranged donations of personal papers, travel documents, radio talks and newspaper and magazine clippings (including otherwise hard-to-locate short stories) from Mander's sister, Amy Cross. Bibliography Maoriland Worker articles under the pseudonym of ‘Manda Lloyd’ (1910) The Story of a New Zealand River (1920) The Passionate Puritan (1921) The Strange Attraction (1922) Allen Adair (1925) The Besieging City (1926) Pins and Pinnacles (1928) References External links Real Gold, Treasures of Auckland City Libraries - Jane Mander The Story of a New Zealand River The Strange Attraction The Passionate Puritan 1877 births 1949 deaths Columbia University alumni New Zealand journalists New Zealand women novelists New Zealand suffragists People from Whangārei 20th-century New Zealand novelists 20th-century New Zealand women writers