NJ
said one of the greatest influences on her after her mother was the actress Gladys ffolliott
.
Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson, 1933.
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Her friends in the music-hall and the theatre included a roster of distinguished and less distinguished...
Leisure and Society
Emmuska Baroness Orczy
Music was very important to EBO
(though she says she had inexplicably little talent), and she gives one of the five books of her memoirs to her musical life. She heard Edvard Grieg
conducting his...
Author summary
Naomi Jacob
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...
Publishing
Naomi Jacob
The book that NJ
's biographer Paul Bailey
considers the most durable of her works, a life of the music-hall performer Marie Lloyd
, Our Marie, was advertised as forthcoming on this day.