MISS JANE MANDER

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 10

MISS JANE MANDER

New Zealand Authoress Returns YOUNG WRITERS’ PATH Dominion Special Service, Auckland, Oct. 27. The New Zealand authoress, Jane Mander, returned by the Rangitiki today after twenty years’ absence abroad. She is a daughter of Mr. F. Mander, former M.L.C., and member of Parliament for Marsden, who was present to meet her. “I have come back io settle down — and of course to write,” she said. Miss Mander naturally spoke of the literary world at Home.” Things are hard in London for a young writer who is just beginning,” she said. “Too much favour is shown by publishers to young men just down from Oxford and Cambridge. like Beverley Nicholls, irrespective of the quality of what they have written. Often it is ‘tripe,’ and is overboosted. “For such university men it was easy to have the first novel accepted, whether it was good or not, but for an outsider it was most difficult. Some of the first novels which got,into print were very poor, but they had a name behind them. For example, to quote Beverley Nicholls again, whatever he had written first would have been accepted by a publisher because of his prominence at the University.”