WOMEN AND THEIR DIARIES
Twenty-nine readers accepted our inyitation to improve on Betty's Diarysome of them mothers, one a grandmother, several of them business girls, and one a girl still at school. Four of the mothers had twins, a suspiciously high proportion for New Zealand; three called their husbands hubbies; and others used labels for their children that they thought would sound clever in print. In other words, too many wrote their diaries for other people rather than for themselves. Those that we have selected for publication are not necessarily the best literary efforts. The literary level was in fact lower than we expected, but the interest level was much higher. Of the twenty-six offered to us, we shall print these six: "Kath" (Auckland), " Woolgatherer" (Green Island), " Doris" (Wellington), " Wendy " (Gillespie's Beach), "Ednamay". (Catlins River), "Ordinary Woman" (Kawakawa).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 57, 26 July 1940, Page 40
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138WOMEN AND THEIR DIARIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 57, 26 July 1940, Page 40
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