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Jennie Scott Griffiths: How a conservative Texan became a radical socialist and feminist in World War I Australia
When Texan-born Jennie Scott Griffiths arrived in Australia in 1912, she brought a wealth of journalistic experience and her nine children (a tenth was born in Sydney) but little evidence of the radical 'red-ragger' she was to become. This article explores the influences that changed a woman born into a socially conservative, evangelical section of American society, and whose married life was as a member of the small European community in colonial Fiji, to a vehement anti-war socialist and feminist in World War I Australia. Several aspects of her childhood and young adulthood in Texas and her married life in Fiji had lasting effects on her attitude to life
Article, 2016