A Voice on the Wind: the Story of Jessie Mackay by Nellie F.H. Macleod. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

A Voice on the Wind: the Story of Jessie Mackay by Nellie F.H. Macleod. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Publisher: Reed, Wellington, 1955, First Edition. VERY SCARCE.

Very good hardback with torn jacket. Boards are lightly faded and bumped at edges. No owner inscriptions, pages very good, minor marks, small tear to ffep. Bookseller label inside front board. Jacket is marked, chipped and rubbed with a large repaired tear and missing front flap.

Jessie Mackay, born at Rakaia Gorge 1864, was an important early New Zealand poet. She maintained a lifelong commitment to prohibition, universal suffrage, Irish and Scottish Home Rule and liberal causes generally. She was Lady Editor of the Canterbury Times and an active member of the Women s Christian Temperance Union and the National Council of Women. Of her poetry, Eileen Duggan wrote, You have united an old tradition with a new loyalty, and blended without loss the heritage of one land with the ideals and aspirations of another. 158 pages, b&w frontispiece.

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