Ada Maria Jenyns, also known as Mrs. Robert Jocelyn or Ada Maria Jocelyn (7 December 1860 – 18 February 1931), was a British
Victorian novelist.
Biography
Ada Maria Jenyns was born 7 December 1860 in
Aldershot
Aldershot () is a town in Hampshire, England. It lies on heathland in the extreme northeast corner of the county, southwest of London. The area is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council. The town has a population of 37,131, while the Alders ...
,
Hampshire
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, in north-east
England
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to father Soame Gambier Jenyns (1826–873) and mother Rita Thompson. Her paternal grandfather was George Jenyns (1795–1876), Esquire of
Bottisham Hall
Bottisham Hall is a country house in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England.
Built in 1797 for the Reverend George Leonard Jenyns to replace the family's previous home on the same estate,"Bottisham: Manors and other estates", ''A History of the Count ...
. Her father was an army colonel,
and her parents were married in 1859. She had a sister named Florence. In 1882, she married Robert Jocelyn, a soldier and later the 7th
Earl of Roden
Earl of Roden is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1771 for Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Viscount Jocelyn. This branch of the Jocelyn family descends from the 1st Viscount, prominent Irish lawyer and politician Robert Jocelyn, the s ...
.
The Jocelyns had three children. Their only boy was Captain Robert Soame Jocelyn, 8th Earl of Roden (September 1883 – October 1956). The couple's two daughters were Julian Mary (December 1885 – 1973) and Marcia Valda (January 1891 – 1972) Marcia married first Robert Barclay Black and then in 1924
Eric Miles
Major-General Eric Grant Miles CB DSO MC (11 August 1891 – 3 November 1977) was a senior British Army officer who saw active service during both World War I and World War II, where he commanded the 126th Infantry Brigade in the Battle of F ...
, who had a long military career, retiring as a major general.
[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp100570/lady-marcia-valda-miles-nee-jocelyn National Portrait Gallery, photo of Lady Marcia Valda Miles]
Career
Writers
Ouida
Ouida (; 1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). During her career, Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, as well as sh ...
and
George Whyte-Melville
George John Whyte-Melville (19 June 1821 – 5 December 1878) was a Scottish novelist much concerned with field sports, and also a poet. He took a break in the mid-1850s to serve as an officer of Turkish irregular cavalry in the Crimean War.
Li ...
are said to have been her literary inspirations. Jenyns compiled 19 works over her 23-year career.
* ''£100,000 versus Ghosts: A Novel'' (1888)
* ''A Distracting Guest: A Novel'' (1889)
* ''The M.F.H.'s Daughter'' (1890)
* ''The Criton Hunt Mystery'' (1890)
* ''A Big Stake: A Novel'' (1892)
* ''Drawn Blank: A Novel (''1892)
* ''Only a Horse Dealer: A Novel'' (1893)
* ''For One Season Only: A Sporting Novel'' (1893)
* ''Run to Ground: A Sporting Novel'' (1894)
* ''Pamela's Honeymoon: A Novel'' (1894)
* ''A Dangerous Brute: A Sporting Sketch'' (1895)
* ''Juanita Carrington: A Sporting Sketch'' (1896)
* ''A Regular Fraud: A Novel'' (1896)
* ''Only a Flirt: A Novel'' (1897)
* ''Only a Love Story'' (1897)
* ''Lady Mary's Experiences: A Novel'' (1897)
* ''Miss Rayburn's Diamonds'' (1898)
* ''Henry Massinger: A Novel'' (1899)
* ''The Sea of Fortune'' (1901)
See also
*
Victorian literature
Victorian literature refers to English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). The 19th century is considered by some to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. It was in the Victorian era tha ...
References
1860 births
1931 deaths
People from Hampshire (before 1974)
19th-century British novelists
19th-century British women writers
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