Ruth Flashoff: With A Pen In My Hand

Steele Roberts

$29.95

Flashoff, now in her 90s, has gifted us this memoir of her pioneering life.

Inspired by the likes of Alan Mulgan (who taught her journalism at the University of Auckland in the 1920s) and Elsie Morton, a reporter for the New Zealand Herald, Flashoff became a freelance journalist, writing for the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, Elsie Locke's Woman Today and the Free Lance.

Always a great contributor to the communities in which she found herself, Flashoff was heavily involved in relief work following the Napier earthquake and during the Depression.

Later she became principal of two girls' colleges.

Just as interesting as events, people and historical moments are her tone of optimism and enthusiasm, and her underlying message that education and an appreciation of history give meaning to life.