Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and illustrator. Born in Tapanui, Otago, New Zealand. Published illustrations in New Zealand Illustrated Magazine. Her poetry is included in New Zealand Verse, ed. by William Frederick Alexander (1906). Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Poynter’s Winter Evening at Stewart Island, New Zealand, published on 21 January 1899, lists the author as Miss C. S. Poynter, Torapenke, Pomahalla, Otago, New Zealand (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Ancestry. (AC)