Jessie Weston (writer)

Jessie Edith Weston (also known as Jessie Weston-Campbell, 1865 – 21 May 1939) was a New Zealand novelist and journalist. She was best known for her novel Ko Méri, or, A Cycle of Cathay: A Story of New Zealand Life (also known as Ko Meri), published in 1890. The novel formed part of what was termed the Māoriland movement in New Zealand literature.[1] She spent the rest of her life living in the United Kingdom, where she wrote articles promoting imperialism for British newspapers and magazines, and published a collection of essays called Imperalism (1898) under her pseudonym C. de Thierry.