Description
Innell Jolliffe (1882-1963), Ventnor, Isle of Wight – the extraordinary story of an Island woman emancipated before her time, by Michael Freeman and Robert Trowbridge.
69 pages, fully illustrated in colour and black and white. (Book will be despatched following publication week beginning October 6 2015)
Innell Jolliffe (1882-1963) was a pioneer woman journalist on the Island, eventually becoming proprietor and editor of the Isle of Wight Advertiser from 1915 to 1923. She grew up in Bonchurch, spent most of her working life in Ventnor, moving to the Mill House at Southford, near Whitwell, in retirement.
Journalism, however, was in some ways the least of Innell’s achievements, for she was a talented musician, a skilled photographer, and a writer of poetry, short plays and sketches. She sought to engage in a wide range of community life, performing volunteer service in both world wars, captaining the 1st Ventnor Guides for some five years in the 1920s, as well as being local secretary of the RSPCA from 1918 right up to her death.
