Henrietta Jenkin or Henrietta Jackson; Henrietta Camilla Jenkin; Henrietta Camilla Jackson (1807–1885) was an

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novelist.

Life

Jenkin was born in

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in about 1807.Henrietta Jenkin
ODNB She was the only daughter in four children. She married in 1832 and her son

Fleeming Jenkin Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE LLD (; 25 March 1833 – 12 June 1885) was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of the cable car or telphera ...

was born the following year. By 1840 she was publishing the first of her books. In 1859, she made her name when she published the

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novel ''Cousin Stella; or, Conflict''.Henrietta Jrenkin
Orlando project, Retrieved 25 July 2016 She moved to Paris in 1867 and the following she went to Genoa. Whilst there, she was involved in Liberal causes until she left in 1851. She moved to

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when her son was appointed a professor at the university. Jenkin and her husband were living in Edinburgh when she died only days after him in 1885.

Works

# ‘Who Breaks, Pays,’ 1861 # ‘Skirmishing,’ 1862. #‘Once and Again,’ 1865. #‘Two French Marriages,’ 1868 (republished in New York as ‘A Psyche of To-day,’ 1868 #‘Madame de Beauprés,’ 1869. # ‘Within an Ace,’ 1869. # ‘Jupiter's Daughters,’ 1874.

References

1807 births 1885 deaths Migrants from British Jamaica to the United Kingdom English women novelists 19th-century English novelists 19th-century English women writers {{UK-writer-stub