Jenny Coleman

May 25, 2018

Polly Plum

A Firm and Earnest Woman's Advocate, Mary Ann Colclough, 1836–1885

Otago University Press 2017

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In her new book, Polly Plum: A Firm and Earnest Woman's Advocate, Mary Ann Colclough, 1836–1885 (Otago University Press, 2017), Jenny Coleman, a senior lecturer and Director of Academic Programmes in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University, explores the life and letters of early New Zealand feminist Mary Ann Colclough, who wrote under the name Polly Plum. Coleman offers a biographical portrait of a too-long forgotten advocate for girls’ education, women’s rights and social reforms in New Zealand and around the world.

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