| Kate Eva Westlake | |
| Birth Date: | 1856 |
| Birth Place: | Ingersoll, Canada West |
| Death Date: | 4 March 1906 |
| Death Place: | London |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
Kate Eva Westlake (after marriage, Yeigh; pen name, Aunt Polly Wolly; 1856 – 4 March 1906) was a Canadian writer and an early editor.
Westlake was born in Ingersoll, Canada West.[1] The family moved to London, Ontario where her father succeeded in business. One of her first published works was a serial western story titled "Stranger Than Fiction," published magazine. She became a sub-editor of the newly formed St. Thomas Journal, replacing her brother who died in 1881 at the age of 27.
She was given the editorship of the Fireside Weekly, a family story paper published in Toronto. She sometimes signed her work "Aunt Polly Wogg." She was a Baptist and a Liberal. In 1891 a very successful book, Sitting Bull's White Ward, was published exploiting the death of Sitting Bull the year before. Westlake is believed to be its anonymous author.[2]
In 1892, she married Frank Yeigh, an author.[3]
She wrote for Canadian Magazine.[4] In 1906, she published A Specimen Spinster[5] which was her only book in her name. The book was about the views on life of Aunt Polly Wolly.[2]
Westlake died in London, Ontario in 1906.