Naomi Jacob

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NJ was a highly prolific, popular author, whose profitable writing career began in the 1920s and produced more than seventy books. The greater number are novels, including a notable series detailing for fortunes of an English Jewish family. Her fiction became steadily more formulaic with time. She also wrote plays, journalism, opera programme notes, and whatever came to hand. She issued several volumes of rambling memoirs which include much entertaining theatre reminiscence (every one of which has the word Me in its title) and a biography of Marie Lloyd . She was well-known on the stage in her earlier life, and later on as a broadcaster.
Black-and-white photo of Naomi Jacob, circa 1930. She wears a suit and bow tie, with her hair short and finger waved. She gazes at a lit            cigarette in her left hand that is billowing smoke.
"Jacob Naomi" by Hulton Archive/Stringer, 1930-01-01. Retrieved from https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/british-author-naomi-jacob-news-photo/2629707. This image is licensed under the GETTY IMAGES CONTENT LICENCE AGREEMENT.

Milestones

1 July 1884
NJ was born at 20 High St Agnes Gate, Ripon, in Yorkshire, the elder of two sisters.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
1923
NJ is said to have had a play staged entitled The Dawn. Like her later plays, it seems not to have been reached print.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
27 August 1964
NJ died at the age of eighty, at Sirmione on Lake Garda in Italy, where she had lived for upwards of thirty years.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
By mid-June 1965
NJ 's Flavia appeared posthumously, advertised as her last great novel, following Yolanda in 1963 and Long Shadows in 1964.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
(17 June 1965): 493

Biography

Birth and Influences

1 July 1884
NJ was born at 20 High St Agnes Gate, Ripon, in Yorkshire, the elder of two sisters.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.