Margaret Lewis

There are considerable discrepancies in statements about her birth year. Many sources provide the year 1899, as that is the year NM herself claimed, but biographer Margaret Lewis states that her father's absent-mindedness led to...

Her biographer Margaret Lewis finds vividness, freshness of observation, and exuberance in these articles, which are full of quirky observations and dramatically shaped vignettes.

A Man Lay Dead is, says Lewis , very much a formula novel, set in a country house in which a game of murder suddenly mutates into the real thing.

Margaret Lewis called Play Productiona minor classic of its kind.

Margaret Lewis judged these lectures do not deserve the oblivion into which they have fallen, since they sparkle with insight, humour and a genuine understanding of Shakespeare and his interpreters, and exhibit erudition lightly worn.

NM 's earliest ambition was to be an artist, and she continued to paint into the 1940s. She was a founding member of the mainly-female Group of Christchurch painters, who intended her training at the...