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

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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

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, France, in 1847 and the next year she went to

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, Italy. While there, she was involved in Liberal causes, until she left in 1851. She moved to

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, Scotland, 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

* ''Cousin Stella; or, Conflict'', 1859 * ''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.

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1800s births 1885 deaths 19th-century English novelists 19th-century English women writers 19th-century Jamaican writers Jamaican emigrants to the United Kingdom English women novelists Victorian novelists Victorian women writers {{UK-novelist-stub