S. Elizabeth (Sarah Elizabeth) Jackson

Born in 1890 in Ovingham, near Adelaide, Sarah Elizabeth Jackson was an Australian author who also wrote as S. Elizabeth Jackson, S. E. J., Simon Simple, and Dorothy Cleishbotham. Reference sources on Australian literature identify her as a South Australian writer, and later published material about her life notes that friends and family knew her by her second name, Elizabeth.

Jackson died on January 14, 1923, at the age of thirty-two. A later collection, The Letters of Sarah Elizabeth Jackson (1910–1922), drew on letters preserved by her family and has become an important source for understanding her life and character.

Although she is not widely known today, the record that survives suggests a talented literary figure whose work and correspondence still interest readers of Australian writing and literary history.