Ethel Jollie
Ethel Jollie was a writer and political activist in Southern Rhodesia and became the first female parliamentarian in Rhodesia in 1920.
She was born Ethel Maude Cookson in Castle Church in Stafford, Great Britain on 8 March 1874 and studied art under Anthony Ludovici at the Slade School of Fine Art where she met her first husband, explorer A. R. Colquhoun.
After Colquhoun’s death on 18 December 1914, she replaced him as editor of United Empire magazine. She later remarried a Rhodesian farmer called John Tawse Jollie. She was one of the front figures in the campaign for Rhodesian self-rule, founding the Responsible Government Association in 1917. She was a leading member of the National Service League, the Imperial Maritime League, the British Women’s Emigration Society, the Women’s Unionist Association, and the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council. Ethel Tawse Jollie was an avowed anti-suffragist and anti-feminist. She died in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 21 September 1950.
Publications:
- Two on their Travels, William Heinemann, 1902.
- The Whirlpool of Europe, with Archibald R. Colquhoun, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1907.
- The Vocation of Woman, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1913.
- Our Just Cause; Facts about the War for Ready Reference, William Heinemann, 1914.
- The Real Rhodesia, Hutchinson & Co., 1924.
- Native Administration in Southern Rhodesia, Royal Society of Arts, 1935
