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Name	Jessie Sinclair Litchfield
Alternative Names	Jessie Sinclair Phillips
Born	18 February, 1883 Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	12 March, 1956 (aged 73) Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation or Descriptor *	short story writer (1908-1942) Northern Territory, Australia essayist (1909-1956) Northern Territory, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1930-1930) Northern Territory, Australia journalist (1930-1956) Northern Territory, Australia newspaper editor (1930-1932) Northern Territory, Australia magazine/journal editor (1954-1956) Northern Territory, Australia
Legacies *	Jessie Litchfield award for literature (eponym)

* Dates are approximate