Ethel Maud Tawse Jollie (8 March 1874 – 21 September 1950; née Cookson; widowed Colquhoun) was a writer and political activist in

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who was the first female parliamentarian in the British overseas empire.

Career

Cookson was born Ethel Maude Cookson in Castle Church, Stafford, the daughter of Samuel Cookson, a doctor. She studied art under

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at the

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where she met her first husband, explorer

Archibald Ross Colquhoun Archibald Ross Colquhoun ( ; March 1848 – 18 December 1914) was a British explorer and the first Administrator of Southern Rhodesia. He held office from October 1890 until September 1892, the period of the founding of Fort Salisbury (now Hara ...

. They married at St. Paul's church, Stafford, on 8 March 1900, and she accompanied her husband on tours across Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, before settling in

. 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. Tawse Jollie 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

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, the Imperial Maritime League, the British Women's Emigration Society, the

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, and the

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. Ethel Tawse Jollie was an avowed anti-suffragist and anti-feminist. She died in

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, Southern Rhodesia, on 21 September 1950.

Works

''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.Chaloner, Martin (1914)
"The Solvency of Woman,"
''The Edinburgh Review,'' Vol. 219.
''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

Articles

” On Some Overseas Poetry,"
''United Empire,'' Vol. I, 1909/1910.
"The Husband of Madame de Boigne,"
''The Nineteenth Century,'' Vol. LXVII, January/June 1910.
"Feminism and Education,"
''The University Magazine,'' Vol. XII, 1913. *"Woman and Morality," ''The Nineteenth Century,'' Vol. LXXV, January 1914.
"The Superfluous Woman: Her Cause and Cure,"
''The Living Age,'' Vol. LXIII, April/June 1914.
"Archibald Colquhoun: A Memoir,"
''United Empire,'' Vol. VI, 1915/1916.
"As Others See Us,"
''United Empire,'' Vol. VI, 1915/1916.
"The Balkan States and the War,"
''United Empire,'' Vol. VI, 1915/1916.
"Some Humours of Housekeeping in Rhodesia,"
''Blackwood's Magazine,'' Vol. CC, July/December 1916.
"Modern Feminism and Sex Antagonism,"
''The Lotus Magazine,'' Vol. 9, No. 2, November 1917
Part II
Vol. 9, No. 3, December 1917.
"Woman-Power and the Empire,"
''United Empire,'' Vol. VIII, 1917/1918.
"Germany and Africa,"
''United Empire,'' Vol. IX, 1918/1919.
"Rhodesia and the Union,"
''United Empire,'' Vol. X, 1919/1920.
"The Question of Southern Rhodesia,"
''United Empire,'' Vol. XI, 1920.
"The Future of Rhodesia,"
''United Empire,'' Vol. XII, 1921. *"Britain's New Colony," ''United Empire,'' Vol. XIV, 1923.

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