GIRL SEEKS ADVENTURE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21906, 15 September 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)

GIRL SEEKS ADVENTURE

GREECE AND ASIA MINOR "ROUGHING IT FOR A YEAR" When the cargo steamer Grodno sailed from London recently, bound for Piraeus, her only passenger was a girl in search of a year's adventure in the hinterland of Greece and Asia Minor. This plucky voyage is being undertaken by Miss Rose Marie Hodgson, daughter of a Leeds schoolmaster. She has returned from Oxford University after the success of her first novel, " Rosy-Fingered Dawn," a commentary on Oxford student life. Now she is planning as her second book an historical novel of Greece. "I am preparing to rough it for about a year," Miss Hodgson said. "My luggage will cbnsist chiefly of riding kit and evening gowns. Riding kit because most of my travels through Greece will be on the back of a mule. Evening gowns because I am passionately fond of dancing and hope to get a little relaxation of this kind in Athens." Miss Hodgson left Oxford with an honours degree in classical Greek, and she intended to spend her time aboard the Grodno studying the modern Greek tongue. This seeker of adventure in strange lands is not the " tomboy " type of girl. She said that next to writing there is nothing she likes better than to design and make all her own gowns. She is passionately fond of the theatre and the cinema.