Spinster Author:Sylvia Ashton-Warner Sylvia Ashton-Warner had been writing fiction and publishing short stories for many years before Spinster burst on to the New Zealand and international literary scene in 1958. Ostensibly the story of a single teacher working in a largely Maori school, Spinster is also an account of Anna Vorontosov’s emotional involvement with her pupils, a... more » fellow teacher, the inspector who praises her reading scheme, and the shadowy lover Eugene.« less