Curtain falls for Nyree Dawn Porter

“Forsyte sex symbol who conquered the world”, Kiwi-born and raised star of the 60’s TV show The Forsyte Saga (watched by 100 milllion people in 26 countries) remembered in The TelegraphThe Guardian and The Times. As Irene, the wronged wife of a Victorian ‘man of property’, Dorothy Porter’s “classical good looks” became known world-wide and her performances “gripped a generation of viewers”.


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Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Like many writers before her, New Zealand-born Amy Brown takes inspiration from the Australian feminist icon Stella Maria Miles Franklin in her captivating debut novel My Brilliant Sister – but instead…