Jennie Scott Griffiths, 1903-1943
- F1722
- Item
- 1945-1959
Bound duplicated scrapbook containing papers relating to Jennie Scott Griffiths. The papers comprise typescript poetry, newspaper cuttings of her poems and articles about Scott Griffiths, and correspondence either sent or received by her. Correspondents include the Australian Journalists' Association, Workers' Educational Association of New South Wales, Leon Herbert Spencer Brodzky (Spencer Brodney), and the Central Women's Organising Committee of the Australian Labor Party. Most of the cuttings of poetry are attributed to 'Jennie Wilson', a pen name. Also includes several pages of biographical information about Scott Griffiths by an unknown author, possibly her son. The date range in the title of the scrapbook is possibly a reference to when the works were written and/or published.
The poems, 68 in total, include: 'Fidelis'; 'I ask you'; 'Treasure'; 'The talisman'; 'Liberty'; 'Victory'; 'Toward the light'; 'The woman'; 'Resurgent'; 'Conflict'; 'Fame'; 'Vignette'; 'I have lived'; 'Completion'; 'A tropical island'; 'Sa Vucisa (I'm lazy)'; 'We are the mummers'; 'Luck'; 'Give me the road'; 'One asks for naught'; 'No Christian nations'; 'I should be glad'; 'Modern romance'; 'Fragments'; 'A Tukelau [Tokelau] burial chant'; 'The open gate'; 'Old George'; 'Law'; 'The boat'; 'The flag'; 'Palm trees'; 'I am my own'; 'An idyl'; 'It is not death I fear'; 'The woman speaks'; 'Why shouldn't you die?'; 'Less than'; 'To an enlisted son'; 'Remembering'; 'Meat'; 'Cycle'; 'I hold you bound'; 'Then'; 'Sanctuary'; 'Past'; 'To his wife - to his mistress'; 'Mental'; 'Whence and whither'; 'You are as free'; 'Men are marching'; 'Saved'; 'When pigeons fly at evening time'; 'No questions asked'; 'The messengers'; 'The friend'; 'A birthday wish'; 'The altar'; 'Courage'; 'The war-makers'; 'When I am dead'; 'Regret'; 'Courage' (2); 'My house'; 'Gulls'; 'Fate'; 'Pago Pago'; 'For I am dead'; and 'To a vanished tree'.
Griffiths, Jennie Scott, 1875-1951