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    Aug 05, 2018 3 minutes

    Penny Martin will be speaking at Semi-Permanent, Auckland on Saturday, 10 August, 2018. For tickets and information on the event see semipermanent.com

    GREAT EXPECTATIONS

    Charles Dickens, 1860

    At secondary school, our history teacher was a bit of a sporting star; she umpired women’s hockey at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 and we schoolchildren were big fans. Miss Robertson’s rendition of 19th-century social history was hugely inspiring to me – I must have studied all those prison reforms was the perfect complement to all that. I find its “rags to riches to rags” story arc – where someone becomes greedy and delusional and then squanders all their opportunities – really compelling. , all those Jacobean morality plays – I love it when a fancy-dan gets their just desserts!

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