Her ashes were buried with Sylvia Fox
at the Holy Innocents churchyard, Mount Peel, New Zealand.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education
Ngaio Marsh
NM
's parents made significant financial sacrifices to provide her with a good education,
Lewis, Margaret. “To Ngaio, from her biographer, with affection and respect”. Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work, edited by B.J. Rahn, The Scarecrow Press, 1995, pp. 1-22.
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which began when she was six years old. She was first sent to a small, private primary school run by...
Friends, Associates
Ngaio Marsh
Her last months were cheered by the company of her friend Sylvia Fox
, who normally lived close by, but who stayed with Marsh while she recovered from a broken ankle.
Lewis, Margaret. Ngaio Marsh: A Life. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
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Textual Features
Ngaio Marsh
She named her detective-hero Roderick Alleyn after the Elizabethan actor and theatre entrepreneur Edward Alleyn
(who founded the school where her father had been educated, and a biography of whom by Elizabeth Jenkins
was published...
