Title: Introduction to G. M. Reed’s The Angel Isafrel

Author: David Weir

In: The Angel Isafrel: A Story of Prohibition in New Zealand

Publication details: Upton and Company, 1896

Part of: Nineteenth-Century Novels Collection

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In Conclusion

In spite of the spirited efforts of the prohibition movement, New Zealand never underwent a national reform. After the peak in 1911, and a close call in 1919 when only the votes of overseas troops prevented the fanatics’ victory, the movement stalled (Moffat 161)⁸¹. Districts that had voted “dry” gradually revoked the decision, and the movement appears to have faded from memory, with books like The Angel Isafrel left as some of the last remnants of this fervent period of New Zealand history.