Nelly Rhodes

After this NM dealt with bogus religion in Death in Ecstasy, 1936 (based on but heightening an actual scandal), the theatre world of New Zealand in Vintage Murder, 1937, (dedicated to Allan Wilkie

To help pay her way, NM taught children in the mornings while she was still a student. During the 1920s in New Zealand she earned money acting, producing, painting, and writing. The Sun (an evening...

NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...

She dedicated it: For Jemima with love. A dramatised version by herself and Eileen Mackay (eldest daughter of Nelly Rhodes ), played at Worthing in October 1961, but the authors were not really satisfied...

She had been warmly invited by Tahu and Nelly Rhodes to stay with them in their house, Alderbourne Manor near Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, and later at their two spacious flats in Eaton Mansions...

NM based the overpowering Lamprey family on an actual family of old friends who were a presence both in New Zealand and in England: Tahu Rhodes and his wife Helen or Nelly (a peer's daughter)...

After her earliest years as a writer, NM 's dramatic writings were few. She collaborated on a three-act play, Exit Sir Derek, using some of the same material as The Nursing Home Murder...