Ngaio Marsh Her Life in Crime (27 page)

Ngaio’s mother, Rose Marsh, c. 1910. St Margaret’s College (SMC 1-4e)

Ngaio as head prefect at St Margaret’s College, Christchurch, c. 1914. St Margaret’s College (SMC 1-4e)

Ngaio Marsh with Allan Wilkie, c. 1920. St Margaret’s College (SMC 1-4e)

Ngaio Marsh reclining in a chair, c. 1933. Photograph by William Sykes Baverstock, ATL, PAColl-0326-09

Ngaio Marsh with the Rhodes and Plunket families on seaside holiday in Birchington, Kent. Nelly Rhodes is at the centre, with Toppy Blundell Hawkes, Ngaio Marsh and Tahu Rhodes to her right. In front are Denys, Teddy, Eileen and Pam Rhodes, c. 1930.
ATL, PA
Coll-9232-08

Ngaio Marsh’s painting
In the Quarry,
c. 1935, featured on the front cover of
Art New Zealand,
Number 78/Autumn 1996.

Ngaio Marsh’s painting,
Native Market, Durban,
c. 1933. Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology

The 1936 Group Exhibition in Christchurch, Ngaio in the centre, wearing tie and beret. Left to right: Rata Lovell-Smith, Phyllis Bethune, Mr Bethune, Dr Lester, Billy Baverstock, Margaret Anderson (holding Toss Woollaston’s
Figures from Life),
Mr Henderson, Rosa Sawtell, Louise Henderson. Photograph by Olivia Spencer Bower, Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

Mannings family photograph (right to left): Stella, John, John (senior), and in front Jean and Roy with Pekinese dogs Misty and Chee-Chee, c. 1946. Collection of Jean Crabtree

Ngaio with her father Henry Marsh, still playing tennis on his 80th birthday in May 1943. St Margaret’s College (SMC 1-4e)

Cast members from
Othello
(right to left): Dundas Walker, Barbara Reay, Paul Molineaux (Othello), Ngaio, (unknown woman), and Jack Henderson (Iago). ATL, PA1-q-173-73-2

Ngaio Marsh’s first proper meeting with Agatha Christie at a Crime Writers’ Association ‘prize winners party’ at the Savoy, London, 1962. St Margaret’s College (SMC 1-4e)

Ngaio as guest of honour at the ‘Marsh Millions’ party given by Collins and Penguin, with author and critic, Ivor Brown (left), and William Collins (right), London, 1949. St Margaret’s College (SMC1-4e)