Dorothea Turner

A celebrated woolcraft practitioner and classicist Dorothea Turner, graduated in 1982 from Auckland University with a PhD entitled Fibrecraft in Homer as an index of Status and Character.

"Her 1972 biography of Jane Mander is the standard work on the New Zealand novelist. Dr Turner was a music and radio critic, and a member of the 1973 Adam Committee which recommended separation of the NZBC's radio and television wings. Her husband, Sir Alexander Turner, a president of the Court of Appeal, died in 1993. Dorothea Turner was sister of Man Alone author John Mulgan."

A promoter of textile crafts Turner assisted Joan Calvert, Guy Ngan and Jean Ngan, to produce 'Forest in the Sun' (1977) wall hanging for the Executive Wing (Beehive) of Parliament.

Quoted from Evening Post obituary, 14 August 1997.