[6] Geisow's father was an insurance agent, the town clerk, and a Justice of the Peace by the time he died in 1904, and was well-known in Queenstown.
Writer and poet Charles Brasch was believed to have stayed at the cottage with Geisow and her sister Gertie.
In his memoir, Brasch recalls Geisow and her sister: Gertie and Kitty Geisow came from Queenstown for their Dunedin season; two aged countrywomen as I saw them now, in whose slow quiet kindly voices, patient and humorous, I heard half my own past, and knew again the rock and tussock, the gums and pines and matagouri, the shining pebbles of the lake shore and Queenstown's old limestone schist houses — all Wakatipu almost except the lake water.
They loved to talk of the past and especially of our family; they recalled my great-grandparents, dead forty years earlier, as old familiar respected friends who might be living still — 'Mr and Mrs Hallenstein'.
Her 'Coronet Peak' and 'Lake Wakatipu', if sketchy, have every appearance of being original, and 'Queenstown' (No 417) shows that this lady sees accurately, knows what to put in, and possesses more than a little power in finishing a picture.