Cirrus@Austlit

New Zealand poet Jessie Mackay 'was connected with a wide range of literary people in both New Zealand and Australia. She corresponded with A. G. Stephens, the editor of 'The Red Page', the literary page of The Bulletin, in which a number of her poems were published, and with Australian writer and literary critic Nettie Palmer.' According to the Letters of Mary Gilmore (1980) she was also a friend of Gilmore's and a brief report of the Melbourne Literary Club meeting (Birth 3.31, June 1919 p.8) refers to a Miss Mary Mackay of Sydney, 'a sister of Jessie Mackay'.

(Major Source: Roberts, Heather. 'Mackay, Jessie 1864 - 1938'. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 4 April 2003 URL: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/)