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Ursula Bethell

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Anthology
A Book of New Zealand Verse, 1923-45. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1945. Voyager link
The Cats Whiskers: New Zealand Writers on Cats. Auckland: Vintage, 2005. Voyager link
The Faber book of 20th century women's poetry. London: Faber and Faber, 1987.
The nature of things: poems from the New Zealand landscape. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2005. Voyager link
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Article
"The pleasures of poetry." Listener July 1 (2000): 42-44.
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Essay
"Mary Ursula Bethell: her women friends." Printout 11; Winter (1996): 68-70.
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Letter
Vibrant with words: the letters of Ursula Bethell. Wellington, Victoria University Press 2005. Voyager link
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Poetry
Collected Poems. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1950.
Collected Poems. Auckland, Oxford University Press 1985.
Landfall 195; Autumn (1998): 174-176.
Day and Night: Poems 1924-34, by the author of Time and Place. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1939.
From a Garden in the Antipodes. London, 1929.
Time and Place: poems by the author of From a garden in the Antipodes. Christchurch, Caxton Press 1936.
 

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Article
Sinclair, Keith. "New Zealand literary history." New Zealand Journal of History 12.1; April (1978): 69-74.
Hearnshaw, Vickie. "R.N. Field, Mary Ursula Bethell and The River and the Sea: a note." Bulletin of New Zealand Art History 18; (1997): 87-88.
Thomson, Heidi. "A note on Maria Edgeworth and Ursula Bethell." Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries 2.1; May (1999): 46-47.
Lentle, Samantha. "’Only for yr. eyes’ [electronic resource]: the publication of Ursula Bethell’s ’Six Memorials’." Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries (2010).
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Biography
Cresswell, D'Arcy. "Ursula Bethell: some personal memories." Landfall 8; Dec (1948): 275-296.
Rewi, Adrienne. "The poetic life of Ursula Bethell remembered." Press October 28 (1955): 6-6.
Holcroft, M.H. Mary Ursula Bethell. Oxford University Press, Wellington, 1975.
Charman, Janet. "My Ursula Bethell." Womens Studies Journal 14.2; Spring (1998): 91-108.
Whiteford, Peter. "Schroder, Bethell, and The Press: a correction to The Oxford Companion." Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries 2.2; Nov (1999): 57-58.
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Criticism
Baigent, L. "The poetry of Ursula Bethell." Landfall 5; Mar (1951): 23-30.
Anderson, Douglas M. "Mr Holcrofts Islands." Landfall 21; Mar (1952): 5-20.
McCormick, E.H. New Zealand Literature: a Survey. Oxford University Press, London, 1959.
Smithyman, Kendrick. A Way of Saying: a Study of New Zealand Poetry. Collins, Auckland, 1965.
Baxter, James K. Aspects of Poetry in New Zealand. Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1967.
Curnow, Wystan. Problems and responses of three New Zealand poets in the 1920s. In: Essays on New Zealand Literature. Heinemann Educational Books, Auckland, 1973.
King, B. "Bethell and modern New Zealand poetry." Proceedings and Papers of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 21; (1982): 407-407.
Else, Anne. "Not more than man nor less : the treatment of women poets in Landfall, 1947-1961." Landfall 156; Dec (1985): 431-446.
Leggott, Michele. "Opening the archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the persistence of record." Hecate 2.2; Oct (1994): 193-216.
Thomson, John. "Two birds in the bush: ornithology in Bethell and Gee." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 17; (1999): 139-140.
James, Trevor. Pitched at the furthest edge: religious presence and the landscape in contemporary New Zealand poetry. In: Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2001: 131-152.
Pirie, Mark. "A changing sense of ’home’: Bethell and Hawken ." Bravado 16; (2009): 15-19.
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Essay
Dowling, Basil. "Extreme unction: in memoriam MUB." Landfall 8; Dec (1948): 275-275.
Grave, S.A. "The poetic life of Ursula Bethell remembered." Meanjin 13; Spring (1954): 381-388.
Curnow, Wystan. New Zealand poetry and the Depression. In: Essays on New Zealand Literature. Heinemann Educational Books, Auckland, 1973.
Erwin, R. "Ursula Bethell and Evelyn Hayes: a misattribution?." Landfall 31; June (1977): 156-162.
Mary, Alison. "A poets garden." New Zealand Historic Places 40; Mar (1993): 9-10.
Laura, Valerie. "Ursula Bethell: publishing the poetry." Stout Centre Review 3.3; June (1993): 10-14.
Bethell, Ursula. "Mary Ursula Bethell: her women friends." Printout 11; Winter (1996): 68-70.
Elder, Charlotte. "Seeing the light of day: J.H.E. Schroder's broadcast review of 'Day and Night'." Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries 3.1; May (2000): 10-21.
Lentle, Samantha. "Ursula Bethells November 1937 and Jacques-Benigne Bossuet." Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries 3.2; Nov (2000): 50-54.
Trevelyan, Jill. "'Perfectly fairy-godmotherish': the friendship of Toss Woollaston and Ursula Bethell." Kotare - New Zealand Notes & Queries 4.1; June (2001): 3-16.
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Installation
James, Trevor. "Religious awareness in New Zealand poetry: a problem for the imagination." World Literature Written in English 24.2; Autumn (1984): 429-443.
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Thesis
French, Anne. Twelve women poets of New Zealand: imperatives of shape and growth. University of Texas, Texas, 1967.
Weir, John Edward. Five New Zealand poets: a bibliographical and critical account of manuscript material. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 1974.
Hillock, Margaret W. The poetry of the numinous: a study of imagery in the poetry of Ursula Bethell. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 1981.
Hillock, Margaret W. The poetry of the numinous: a study of imagery in the poetry of Ursula Bethell. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 1981.
Treadwell, Gregory. A painters eye: the poems of Ursula Bethell. University of Auckland, Auckland, 1994.
Hankin, Emma Tui. I shall not want another home on this planet, a study of the tradition of elegiac poetry in the work of three New Zealand female poets, Ursula Bethell, Robin Hyde and Katherine Mansfield: a thesis presented in partial fulfiment of the requirements for the. Massey University, Auckland, 1994.
Brewer, Rosemary. A pilgrim in the library: the private letters and public poetry of Mary Ursula Bethell. University of Auckland, Auckland, 1995.
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