Dilnot George

1928 · Best.-Nr. 6444 — Geoffrey Bles 1928. 8vo. First Edition with a frontispiece and 2 plates; original series binding of blue cloth gilt back backstrip lightly sunned else a very good bright clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF F. TENNYSON JESSE AND BEARS HER DISTINCTIVE 'SEA-HORSES' BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN AND PENCILLED HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Fryn properly Friniwyd Tennyson Jesse 1889-1958 English novelist and dramatist was also editor of several volumes in Hodges' 'Notable British Trials' series. A great-niece of Alfred Lord Tennyson she began her career as a painter but diversified into journalism during WWI after which she was appointed to Hoover's Relief Commission for Europe. In 1918 she married the dramatist H M Harwood with whom she co-authored a number of light plays. During WWII she wrote two highly successful collections of letters - 'London Front' 1940 and 'While London Burns' 1942 - both now much sought after as appraisals of the early Home Front and the London Blitz; her Cornish novels among them 'The White Riband' 1921 and 'Moonraker' 1927 are also collected. Her interest in true crime began with her novel 'A Pin to See a Peepshow' 1934; later a successful play based on the Thompson-Bywaters case. Her Notable British Trials volumes include the cases of Madeleine Smith Timothy Evans and John Christie. Geoffrey Bles, hardcover