Kate Isitt (journalist)
Kate Evelyn Isitt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 July 1876 New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| Died | 24 January 1948 (aged 71) London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist and journalist |
| Relatives | Frank Isitt (father) Leonard Isitt (uncle) |
Kate Evelyn Isitt (20 July 1876 – 24 January 1948) was a New Zealand journalist and writer.
Biography
Isitt was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, in 1876, to Francis Whitmore Isitt and Mary Campbell Isitt (née Purdie).[1][2] Her father was a Wesleyan minister and the family moved around the country for a number of years. She completed her secondary schooling at Nelson College for Girls in 1891.[2]
She worked for her uncle, Member of Parliament and leader of the prohibition movement Leonard Isitt, in Wellington in the early 1900s as his private secretary. Isitt later wrote a novel based on the development of the Prohibition movement, Patmos, which was published in 1905 under the pseudonym Kathleen Inglewood.[1]
From 1907 to 1910 Isitt was a reporter for the Wellington newspaper The Dominion and its first women's page editor. Under the name "Dominica" she wrote a regular feature titled "Women's World – Matters of Interest from Far and Near".[2] She also founded the Wellington Pioneer Club for women.[1]
In 1910 Isitt travelled to England and came into contact with other expatriate writers such as Dora Wilcox and Edith Searle Grossmann.[3] She continued to work as a journalist as London correspondent for the Manchester Guardian newspaper.[1] She wrote for the newspaper until her retirement in 1944.
Isitt died in Kensington, London, in 1948.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d Robinson, Roger, ed. (1998). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Oxford University Press. p. 260. ISBN 0 19 558348 5.
- ^ a b c d "Touchstone" (PDF). Methodist Publishing Company. May 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- ^ Moffat, Kirstine (8 June 2012). "Edith Searle Grossmann, 1863–1931". Kōtare: New Zealand Notes & Queries. Retrieved 28 April 2016.