Table of Contents

1.Early Days: Invercargill(Southland):1913-36; 11.University: Otago 1931-36 and Oxford:1936-39; 111.The War and After:1939-48; 1V.The Davins, The English and the Irish:1950-78; V.The First Wave of New Zealanders:1950-70; V1.Publisher and Editor: Oxford University Press:1945-78; V11.The Second Wave of New Zealanders:1970-87; V111.The Man and the Legend:1985-90; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Appendix 1: Family History; Appendix 11. Education; Index

About the Author

Janet Wilson is a New Zealander who as a doctoral student at St Catherine's College Oxford in the early 1980s became a friend of the Davins. This book researched when she was a senior lecturer in English at Otago University, is part of her ongoing study of New Zealand literature.