Kate Isitt (journalist)

Kate Evelyn Isitt (1876 - c.1955) was a New Zealand journalist and writer.

Isitt was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, in 1876.^[1] 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 pseudony Kathleen Inglewood.^[1]

From 1907 to 1910 Isitt was a reporter for the newspaper The Dominion Post and its first women's page editor. She also founded the Wellington Pioneer Club for women.

In 1920 Isitt travelled to England and attended women's suffrage meetings; she continued to work as a journalist as London correspondent for the Manchester Guardian newspaper.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Robinson, Roger (ed.) (1998). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Oxford University Press. p. 260. ISBN 0 19 558348 5. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)

[:0-1] Robinson, Roger (ed.) (1998). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Oxford University Press. p. 260. ISBN 0 19 558348 5. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)

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