Griffiths, Jennie Scott (1875-1951)

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Griffiths, Jennie (1875-1951)
Field of activity
anti-conscriptionist; journalist; magazine/journal editor; political activist; socialist
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SCOTT GRIFFITHS, JENNIE (1875-1951), journalist and political activist, was born on 30 October 1875 near Woodville, Texas, United States of America, daughter of Stephen Randolph Wilson, cotton-farmer, and his wife Laura, née Nettles, who had been born in France. Apparently a precocious child, Jennie recalled—in a memoir written at the end of her life—busking in the 1880s at town fairs as 'The Baby Elocutionist of Texas', studying Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, Henry George, Thomas Paine and Edward Bellamy with a tutor at home, and bungling an elopement with the tutor at the age of 15. She also claimed that she entered the school of law at the University of Texas at Austin in 1890; she probably acquired her knowledge of law while attending classes with her elder half-brother Tom Cowart. When not mixing in student circles, she wrote a column for children in a local newspaper and visited prisons with her father. She then trained as a stenographer and worked as a court reporter.

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Jennie Griffiths was involved in feminist and socialist causes in Sydney.

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  1. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Memoirs and newspaper cuttings of Jennie Scott Griffiths (1913 - 1944)
    Memoirs of her childhood and early married life in the USA and Fiji, and two books of newspaper cuttings relating to her involvement in feminist and socialist causes.
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  1. Papers of Jennie Scott Griffiths
    Griffiths, Jennie Scott, 1875-1951
    [ Unpublished : 1885-1993 ]
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  1. Papers of Jennie Scott Griffiths
    Griffiths, Jennie Scott, 1875-1951
    [ Unpublished : 1885-1993 ]
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