AUTHORESS RETURNS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 13

AUTHORESS RETURNS

MISS JANE MANDER

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, 27th October. The New Zealand authoress Jane Mander returnee! by the Rangitiki today after twenty years * absence abroad. She is a daughter of Mr. P. Mander, the former M.L.C. and member of Parliament for Marsden, who was present to meet her. ' ■

"I have come back to 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 Nichols, irrespective of the quality of what they have written. Often, it is 'tripe,' and is, over-boosted. "'. . For such university men, she said, 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 the}' had a name behind them. For example, to quote Bevorley Nichols again, whatever he had written first would have been_ accepted by a publisher because of his prominence at the University.