Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, teacher, and journalist. Suffragette and anti-vivisectionist. Born to Scottish parents in Canterbury, New Zealand. Journalist for Otago Witness and edited Canterbury Times from 1906 to 1917. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Mackay’s The Return of Tanē, published on 19 August 1893, lists her address as Trentham, Fairlie, So. Canterbury, New Zealand (NLS Dep 341/370). Additional biographical information: DNZB. (AC)