Kathleen Caffyn

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KC was a New Woman novelist and short-story writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who, throughout her career, worked under the pseudonym Iota. She was best known for her first novel, A Yellow Aster.
  • BirthName: Kathleen Hunt
    The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives her first name as Katharine, though other standard reference books and library catalogues give Kathleen.

  • Married: Caffyn
  • Pseudonym: Iota
  • Indexed: Mrs Mannington Caffyn

Milestones

1853

Kathleen Hunt (later KC ) was born at Waterloo House in Co. Tipperary.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2025, Many volumes.

1894

KC , writing as Iota, published her first New Woman novel: the highly popular and controversial A Yellow Aster.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988.
under Yellow

By 21 September 1916

KC published her final novel, Mary Mirrilees, which received a damning short review in the Times Literary Supplement.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
766 (21 September 1916): 454
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2025, Many volumes.

6 February 1926

KC died in Italy, following complications from surgery.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2025, Many volumes.
“Caffyn and Caffin History”. Ancestry.com.

Biography

Birth

1853

Kathleen Hunt (later KC ) was born at Waterloo House in Co. Tipperary.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2025, Many volumes.

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