Epilogue

1 Haworth and Miller, Freda Stark, pp. 128-31.

2 TVNZ One Tonight, 17 February 1997. However, the Listener reported that 'Stark gave evidence in court against him, carefully skirting around her relationship with the singer. [Amanda Rees, the author of the play] said that "[i]n those days, if she was seen as gay, she would have been characterised as an unreliable witness and unable to testify. And she was the only witness."' Louise Reynolds, 'Gilt Complex', Listener, 15 February 1997. We did not attend any of the performances of Amanda Rees's play and the author would not grant us permission to read any of her scripts.

3 Peter Wells, 'Freda Stark: 23 March 1910-19 March 1999', Express: New Zealand's Newspaper of Gay Expression, 1 April 1999.

4 Donna Fleming, 'Murder, forbidden love - what a past!', New Zealand Women' s Weekly, 17 January 1994.

5 Shirley Hodsell Williams, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Vol. 5, p.494.