![]() ![]() ![]() She spent many years teaching Maori children, often using pioneering educational techniques that she later described in her 1963 book Teacher and in her autobiography. In 1932, she married Keith Henderson, a fellow student, with whom she had three children. She attended Wellington Girls’ College and Wadestown School before passing the examination to enter Auckland Teachers’ Training College. ![]() As a child, Sylvia dreamed of becoming a concert pianist. ![]() After her father's health deteriorated, her mother became the sole breadwinner of their large family and they moved frequently for her work at small rural schools. Her parents were Francis Ashton Warner, an English immigrant with an aristocratic heritage but little else, and his wife Margaret Maxwell, a teacher. Sylvia Ashton-Warner was born in Stratford, New Zealand. ![]()
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