Litchfield, Jessie Sinclair (1883 - 1956)

Moving around parts of the Northern Territory while her husband worked in the diamond mines, Jessie Litchfield raised her family and worked as a journalist. She published Far North Memories in 1930. After the death of her husband, she worked as editor of the Northern Territory Times and Government Gazette. In 1955 she became the first woman in the Territory to be appointed a justice of the peace.

• Phillips, Jessie (maiden name)

Australian Women Exhibitions

• The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html. [ Details... ]

Books

• Dickinson, Janet, Jessie Litchfield: Grand Old Lady of the Territory, J. Dickinson, Blackwater, QLD, 1982. [ Details... ]
• Litchfield, Jessie, Far-North Memories: Being the account of ten years spent on the diamond-drills, and of things that happened in those days, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1930, 212 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]