Biography: Messenger, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Messenger

Elizabeth Messenger sat for a portrait photograph in the 1950s, when she was widely known for her popular newspaper cookery column, ‘Dine with Elizabeth’.

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Photography by Woolf, Spencer Digby Collection

Photograph by Spencer Digby

How to cite this page

Nancy Swarbrick. 'Messenger, Elizabeth', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/42683/elizabeth-messenger (accessed 5 June 2026).