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The passionate puritan

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "Set in 1912, The Passionate Puritan follows young teacher Sidney Carey to an isolated kauri-milling community in the far north She discovers romance there, but will she be able to seize it, or will puritanical conventions spoil her life? Social progress and conservatism battle for supremacy in the vivid setting of the Puhipuhi in the days of the old timber industry."--back cover of the 2014 edition.

    "Romance set in Puhipuhi [Northland]"--Bagnall M726.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    PZ3.M27 MAN (Library of Congress Call Number)

    33102 (Cat ID)

    41006 (DBTextworks system ID)

    25668 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    The passionate puritan
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    John Lane, The Bodley Head
  • Place
  • Date
    1922
  • Physical Description

    308 pages ; 19 cm.

  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    2 items in this collection. View all items.

  • Edition/State/Version
    Colonial ed.
  • Subject Category
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Man-woman relationships--Fiction; Women--New Zealand--Puhipuhi--Fiction; Puhipuhi (N.Z.)--Fiction; Romance fiction, New Zealand]

    Edition statement stamped on t.p. verso.

  • Collection Type
    Reserve Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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