This book was written on the eve of Rhodesia's assumption of Responsible Government after 33 years of British South Africa Company administration. It is a profile of the Rhodesia of the early Twenties, and covers an important transitional period in the political life of the young country. The author pleads the case for self-government, interprets the special character of Rhodesia and Rhodesians, and expresses their political aspirations. The Real Rhodesia is valuable background reading for an understanding of some of the issues and attitudes inherent in the current Anglo-Rhodesian dispute. Mrs Ethel Tawse Jollie was to be organizing secretary of the Responsible Government Association (1918-1919) and a highly energetic protagonist of self rule. She was elected to the Legislative Council in 1920 and, with the grant of Responsible Government, became a Member of the first Rhodesian Parliament (1923-1927), being the first woman to sit in an Empire Parliament. A fluent speaker, she was noted for her contributions to debate and for her published writings in leading British quarterlies. The daughter of a doctor, she married Archibald Colquhoun, the first Administrator of Mashonaland, in 1900. She visited Rhodesia in 1904 and, after the death of her husband in 1914, returned to settle. A year later she married J. Tawse Jollie, a farmer. Mrs. Jollie died in 1950.

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