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Chronology
| October 1896 | Passed matriculation examinations aged 16 years. Obtained honours in English, History and French and passed in German, Geography and Physiology. She obtained the Exhibition in English and History. | | 1898 | Joined the Princess Ida Club. Membership number 222 | | 14 February 1898 | Enrolled at the University of Melbourne | | 1901 | Winner of the Cobden Club medal | | 1901 - 1912 | Tutor in history and political economy at Trinity College | | December 1901 | Awarded the Wyselaskie Scholarship in English Constitutional History | | 5 April 1902 | Graduated Batchelor of Arts (BA) | | 4 May 1906 | Registered as a teacher under the Teachers and Schools Registration Act of 1905 | | 7 December 1908 | Appointed by the University of Melbourne Council as an evening lecturer in history, to teach courses on the British Empire and Ancient History | | 1909 | Elected president of the Princess Ida Club | | 21 May 1909 | Foundation member of the Royal Victorian Historical Society, membership number 30. | | 24 September 1910 | One of the original 19 members who formed the Catalysts | | 1911 - 1914 | Served on the Princess Ida Club committee 1911-1912, 1914 and was delegate to the National Council of Women of Victoria | | May 1911 | Gave a paper to the Catalysts titled 'Pragmatism, or the life and works of Annie Swan' | | March 1912 - 17 February 1944 | Foundation member of the Lyceum Club | | 1914 | Gave a paper to the Catalysts on the causes of war | | 1914 - 1921 | Principal of Coaching College at 6, The Block, Collins Street, Melbourne | | 1916 | Gave a paper to the Catalysts on Crete | | 1920 - 1922 | President of the Melbourne Lyceum Club | | 1922 - 1923 | Accompanied Dr Georgina Sweet on a journey from Cape Town to Cairo | | 1923 | Became a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne | | 1923 | Alternate delegate to the League of Nations assembly | | 1924 - 1925 | President of the Victorian Woman Graduates' Association | | 1925 | Acting professor at the University of Melbourne | | 1933 - 1934 | Acting professor at the University of Melbourne | | 1936 | Completed second oversea trip. From England to North Africa, then back to France and by train to Athens, thence to Turkey, down to the Aegean coast and east as far as Cappadocia. She returned to Germany then to Syria and Iraq. | | 1942 - 1944 | Acting professor at the University of Melbourne |
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Books
- Ridley, Ronald T, Jessie Webb, a memoir, University of Melbourne, Department of History, Parkville, Vic., 1994, 208 pp. [ Details... ]
Book Sections
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 'Webb, Jessie Stobo Watson (1880-1944)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography. [ Details... ]
Online Resources
See also
- 'Jessie Webb Collection', in VIRTUAL MUSEUM PROJECT, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology, University of Melbourne, http://vm.arts.unimelb.edu.au/report/webb.htm. [ Details... ]
- 'Jessie Webb Scholarship', in Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/currentstudents/scholarships/jesweb.html. [ Details... ]
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories : brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003, 168 pp. [ Details... ]
- Gillison, Joan M, A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, The Lyceum Club, Melbourne, 1975, 118 pp. [ Details... ]
- Kelly, Farley, Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Women Graduates Centenary Committee, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., 1985, 172 pp. [ Details... ]
- Ruljancich, Sally, 'Garden Parties and Politics : The Victorian Women's Graduate Association 1920-1945', in The Millennium Scholars (ed.), A chequered past : pieces of Melbourne University, University of Melbourne, Dept. of History, Melbourne, 2000, pp. 28-38. [ Details... ]
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