At the height of her career JSW
gave an account of her early development to the memoirist George Bainton
. She said she hardly knew how or why she came to be able to write...
Family and Intimate relationships
John Strange Winter
Henry Vaughan Palmer
, father of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer (who later wrote as JSW
) died.
His daughter says she was just twenty-one; her birthday was in fact six months before.
The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke.
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Family and Intimate relationships
John Strange Winter
Her father, the Reverend Henry Vaughan Palmer
, Rector of St Margaret's Church in York, was, she says, a scholarly gentleman, whose influence counterbalanced his daughter's resistance to learning during her youth.
Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke.