Emma Linda Palmer Littlejohn

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Emma Linda Palmer Littlejohn (1883–1949) was an Australian feminist, journalist and radio commentator.

Early life and education[]

Emma Linda Palmer was born on 11 December 1883 at Double Bay, Sydney.[1] Her parents were Richard Teece and Helena, née Palmer. Her four brothers included barrister Richard Clive Teece and she had two sisters.[2] Palmer was educated at Ascham School, and was involved in philanthropic work as part of the Ascham Old Girls' Union.[2]

Career[]

A feminist,[3] Littlejohn launched the League of Women Voters in 1928 to support female candidates for public office and to press for feminist reforms.[2] Littlejohn was Australian delegate to the congress of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship in Istanbul in 1935.[2][4] Littlejohn addressed the Assembly of the League of Nations on behalf of the Equal Rights International (Geneva).[2] Littlejohn was also a proponent of eugenics.[5]

Littlejohn was a member of the Sydney Day Nursery Association’s governing committee. She belonged to the New South Wales Institute of Journalists (1933–41) and the Business and Professional Women's club of Sydney.[1]

Littlejohn broadcast for the British Broadcasting Corporation and for 2UW and 2UE radio stations in Sydney.[2] Littlejohn also wrote for the Australian Women's Weekly magazine.[6]

Tilden Place in the Canberra suburb of Cook is named in her honour.[7]

Works[]

  • Life and Lucille (1933)[8]

Personal life[]

She married Albert Littlejohn on 5 April 1907 at St John's Church of England, Darlinghurst.[9][2] They had four children.[2] In 1941 she divorced Albert Littlejohn. She married Charles Joseph Tilden at Charleston, South Carolina, on 6 April 1942[2][10] and settled in New Jersey; they returned to Sydney in 1944.[2]

Littlejohn died of cancer in the Scottish Hospital, Paddington, on 21 March 1949.[2][11]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Melbourne, National Foundation for Australian Women and The University of. "Littlejohn, Emma Linda Palmer - The Australian Women's Register". Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Foley, Meredith. "Littlejohn, Emma Linda Palmer (1883–1949)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  3. ^ "WOMEN OF THE WORLD". The Telegraph. Queensland, Australia. 19 June 1933. p. 13 (CITY FINAL LAST MINUTE NEWS). Retrieved 6 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS IN TURKEY". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 27, 592. Victoria, Australia. 24 January 1935. p. 7. Retrieved 6 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "EUGENICS". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 29, 680. New South Wales, Australia. 17 February 1933. p. 11. Retrieved 6 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "WOMEN in PALESTINE Make a Bid for FREEDOM!". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. III, no. 1. Australia. 8 June 1935. p. 30. Retrieved 6 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Australian Capital Territory National Memorials Ordinance 1928-1972". Australian Government Gazette. Periodic (National: 1974–1977). 1976-04-13. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  8. ^ Littlejohn, Linda (1933), Life and Lucille, N.S.W. Bookstall Company, retrieved 6 November 2018
  9. ^ "BRIDAL GROUP AT THE MARRIAGE OF MR. A. LITTLEJOHN TO MISS LINDA TEECE". Punch. Vol. CVI, no. 2698. Victoria, Australia. 11 April 1907. p. 28. Retrieved 6 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "AUSTRALIAN LECTURER". The West Australian. Vol. 58, no. 17, 393. Western Australia. 7 April 1942. p. 4. Retrieved 6 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ "MRS. TILDEN DEAD". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 34, 712. New South Wales, Australia. 24 March 1949. p. 7. Retrieved 4 October 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
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