She worked on this book during her year of exploring London after graduating from university, enthralled by the writing process more intensely than she was ever to be again.
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She dedicated this book to...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Jenkins
She based this story on an actual case of 1877, which she heard about through her lawyer brother David
. She gave most of her characters the same Christian names as their actual originals; her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ
's other brother, David Caldicott Heald Jenkins
, was eight months old at the time of the British census in 1911. He became a successful solicitor first in Hitchin and then in London. During...
Dedications
Elizabeth Jenkins
She published another novel, The Winters, in 1931 (dedicated to her younger brother, David C. H. Jenkins
, though again without mentioning the relationship).