Surname: Mackay Forename(s): Jessie b. 15 December 1864. d. 23 August 1938. Nationality: New Zealandic. VIAF.
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)