F. Tennyson Jesse

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FTJ , one of the few women journalists to report from the Front in the First World War, also published in a wide range of genres.
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She wrote seven plays of her own and collaborated on additional plays with her husband. She also published nine novels, three collections of short stories, two volumes of poetry, two collections of letters, a translation from French, and a history of Burma. As writer of crime and detective fiction, she also produced a book of criminology and edited and introduced six volumes in the Notable British Trials series.

Milestones

1 March 1888

Wynifried Margaret Jesse (who later wrote as FTJ ) was born at Holly Bowers, Chislehurst, Kent.
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1934

FTJ published with Heinemann what is probably her best-known work: the novel A Pin to See the Peepshow.
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20 September 1956

FTJ 's next and final novel, The Dragon in the Heart, A Love Story, was published by Constable .
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6 August 1958

FTJ died, most likely of a heart attack, in London at the age of seventy.
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Biography

Birth and Family

1 March 1888

Wynifried Margaret Jesse (who later wrote as FTJ ) was born at Holly Bowers, Chislehurst, Kent.
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