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Biography: Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance

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Ashton-Warner, Sylvia

The New Zealand Book Council’s entry on Sylvia Ashton-Warner.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, 1908–1984

A substantial 2007 essay by Emily Dobson, from the journal Kōtare.

Three New Zealanders: Sylvia Ashton-Warner

An interview with Ashton-Warner, from a 1978 television documentary.

Bibliography

Ashton-Warner, Sylvia. I passed this way. Wellington: Reed, 1980.

Ashton-Warner, Sylvia. Myself. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.

Hood, Lynley. Sylvia! The biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Auckland: Viking, 1988.

Jones, Alison, and Sue Middleton, eds. The kiss and the ghost: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and New Zealand. Wellington: NZCER Press, 2009.

Stead, C. K. Kin of place: essays on 20 New Zealand writers. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.

How to cite this page

Sue Middleton. 'Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2011. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/173328/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).