This biography is republished from The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Written by Caitlin Stone, The University of Melbourne. See below for full attribution.
Born: 31 July 1880, Australia
Died: 17 February 1944
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: NA
Jessie Stobo Watson Webb was born in New South Wales in 1880. After studying at the University of Melbourne, she began lecturing in the history department in 1908. She was one of the founders of University Women’s College, the Victorian Woman Graduates’ Association and the Lyceum Club. Jessie Webb died in 1944.
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Work cited
Caitlin Stone, ‘Webb, Jessie Stobo Watson’, in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Australian Women’s Archives Project, 2014, https://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0211b.htm, accessed 16 January 2022.