Peer-reviewed
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
ISAA Review, 15, 201601, 31
2016