All the Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor and New Zealand

Greville Texidor—one-time Bloomsbury insider, globetrotting chorus-line dancer, former heroin addict, anarchist militia-woman, and recent inmate of Holloway Prison—became a writer only after arriving in New Zealand as a refugee in 1940. First in remote Paparoa, and then on Auckland’s North Shore as a central member of Frank Sargeson’s circle of writers and intellectuals, she recalled many of the events of her life in the novella These Dark Glasses and a dazzling series of stories. After Tex...