Kate Isitt | |
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Born | Kate Evelyn Isitt 20 July 1876
New Plymouth, New Zealand |
Died | 24 January 1948
London, England | (aged 71)
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.
Isitt was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 20 July 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] [3]
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. [4] 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]
Kate Isitt | |
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Born | Kate Evelyn Isitt 20 July 1876
New Plymouth, New Zealand |
Died | 24 January 1948
London, England | (aged 71)
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.
Isitt was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 20 July 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] [3]
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. [4] 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]