Abstract
The Merry Marauders (1913) recounts the humorous misadventures of an accident-prone theatre company, bringing to life the itinerant theatrical world and its struggles with the temperance movement and frontier environment. The novel is the first in a series of early New Zealand texts to be edited and published by Otago Studies in English. This series has been designed both to preserve these valuable early works and to make them available to a wider reading public.