Greville Texidor--one-time Bloomsbury insider, globetrotting chorus-line dancer, former heroin addict, anarchist militia-woman, and recent inmate of Holloway Prison--became a writer only after arriving in New Zealand as a refugee in 1940.
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First in remote Paparoa, and then on Auckland\'s North Shore as a central member of Frank Sargeson\'s circle of writers and intellectuals, she recalled many of the events of her life in the novella These Dark Glasses and a dazzling series of stories.
Greville Texidor--one-time Bloomsbury insider, globetrotting chorus-line dancer, former heroin addict, anarchist militia-woman, and recent inmate of Holloway Prison--became a writer only after arriving in New Zealand as a refugee in 1940