Cook, Freda
Dates
- Creation: 1970-1979
Access & use
This material is freely available for research and private study within the J.C.Beaglehole Room. For any use beyond this, please address requests to the J.C.Beaglehole Room in the first instance.
Biographical note
Born Freda Mary Pym, 9 November 1896, Oxfordshire, England. Came to New Zealand In 1924. Married Eric Cook in 1935. Died 20 January 1990, Titahi Bay, Wellington. Active throughout her life in the communist and unemployed movements, and numerous other progressive movements in both New Zealand and England. In 1960 she took up an invitation to North Vietnam as the first full-time English teacher at the university of Hanoi. Although the increasing severity of the war after she had come to NZ for a conference in 1968 prevented her from returning she maintained her links with Vietnam. See biography in Te Ara at: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4c30/cook-freda-mary
Biographical/Historical note
Contributed pamphlets, photographs and news clippings to do with the war in Vietnam, c1966-76.
Cook, Freda
Missing Title
- 1896
- Born
- 1990
- Died
Contributed pamphlets, photographs and news clippings to do with the war in Vietnam, c1966-76.
Extent
23 linear_centimeters
Language of Materials
English
Function
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- J C Beaglehole Room - archives and manuscripts
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Aisha Le Frantz
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written inEnglish
- Edition statement
- XML EAD edition
Repository Details
Part of the Tapuaka Heritage & Archive Collections - JC Beaglehole Reading Room, Victoria University of Wellington Library Repository
