Story: Cole Catley, Christine McKelvie

John Reece Cole and Christine Cole Catley

John Reece Cole and Christine Cole Catley

John Reece Cole and Christine Bull were married in Wellington in 1948. The couple were part of the lively Wellington literary scene of the 1950s, when Christine was working as a journalist and John as a librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library. They separated in 1967, after John suffered serious brain damage in two road accidents.

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Tim Shoebridge. 'Cole Catley, Christine McKelvie', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2019, updated January, 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6c4/cole-catley-christine-mckelvie (accessed 29 March 2024)