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- Title: David Mckee Wright, Maorilander (A GATHERING ON IMMIGRANT AND EMIGRANT Writers) (Biography)
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 1992
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 223 KB
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David McKee Wright arrived in Australia for the second time in May 191o. He had first visited in 1887, an Irish youth direct from school in London on his way to an uncertain future in New Zealand. The official cause of his emigration was the diagnosis of a lung ailment, although Wright's own early verse accounts of his situation would suggest that he was exiled as the result of a misdemeanour involving an unnamed young woman whom he associated with memories of Naples. The romantic explanation to himself and the world may not have been entirely mythical; he was in other ways a scapegrace and cause of disquiet to his family. An ailing uncle of Wright's, the Reverend David McKee (1838-1880) of Dublin, had gone to New Zealand in 1879 and dismayingly died at Christchurch within a short time of his arrival. Wright had numerous McKee relatives in Christchurch, where his uncle had been foundation minister of Knox Church. Wright was himself a son of the manse, and his father, the Rev Dr William Wright was to exert some effort to induce his son to enter into the family profession. (1)