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Celebrated author Pauline Cartwright has returned to her North Otago roots for her retirement. She shares with
Ashley Smyth some of the wisdom she has gleaned from a lifetime of teaching, learning, and as the author of too many titles to count.
Pauline Cartwright has been and always will be a writer.
For as long as she can remember, she would put pen to paper at any opportunity.
“If there was an opportunity to have a go at something in the writing field, I did … I used to write poems for the children’s pages, and things like that.”
As a pupil at Weston School, and then Waitaki Girls’ High School, a young Pauline Webster was close friends with Elizabeth Flett, the daughter of well-known Mills and Boon author Essie Summers.