Jenny Carlyon lived for eight years in France where she taught English as a foreign language, history in secondary schools and did her B.A. She returned to Auckland in 1981 and completed an MA and Ph.D in history. Jenny has lived in Remuera and Freeman’s Bay, and, for the last 20 years has worked as an historian. She published her first book Urban Village in 2008.
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BOOK
Urban Village
Ponsonby is one of New Zealand's most famous suburbs, the place where social and political change has fermented and fomented since its origins over 160 years ago. From Michael Joseph Savage to Che Fu, from the Hero Parade to the Polynesian Panthers, the fashion industry to cafe society, Ponsonby has led the way. This lively, authoritative history brings the colourful pageant of Ponsonby's past to light, and includes a wide range of images of the neighbourhood, then and now.