[2][3] She worked for her uncle, Member of Parliament and leader of the prohibition movement Leonard Isitt, in Wellington in the early 1900s as his private secretary.
Isitt later wrote a novel based on the development of the Prohibition movement, Patmos, which was published in 1905 under the pseudonym Kathleen Inglewood.
Under the name "Dominica" she wrote a regular feature titled "Women's World – Matters of Interest from Far and Near".
[1] In 1910 Isitt travelled to England and came into contact with other expatriate writers such as Dora Wilcox and Edith Searle Grossmann.
[4] She continued to work as a journalist as London correspondent for the Manchester Guardian newspaper.