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| new zealand poets | |
| hyde, robin | |
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While working at the ''Dominion'', she had a brief love affair with Harry Sweetman, during which she fell pregnant. Sweetman left her to travel to England, dying soon after his arrival. Hyde resigned from the ''Dominion'' in April 1926 and moved to Sydney, Australia. It was here that she lost her unborn son, Robin, whose name she took as her pseudonym. The trauma of losing both her lover and her child led to Hyde being hospitalised at Queen Mary Hospital in Hamner Springs, back in New Zealand. After a period of recovery, she began to write again, publishing poetry in several New Zealand newspapers in 1927. She was also engaged to write columns for the Christchurch ''Sun'', and the ''Mirror''. However, she became frustated at the lack of creative imput, as the papers merely wanted a social column. Social columns or women's pages were the main outlet available to women journalists during the period. In 1929 Hyde published her first book of poetry, ''The Desolate Star''. Between 1935 and 1938 she published five novels: ''Passport to Hell'' (1936), ''Check To Your King'' (1936), ''Wednesday's Children'' (1937), ''Nor the Years Condemn'' (1938), and ''The Godwits Fly'' (1938). Robin Hyde died by her own hand in England in 1939. She is survived by a son, Derek Challis. REFERENCES {Link without Title} Robin Hyde, New Zealand Book Council |
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