NJ
's mother was born Selina Sara Ellington Collinson
and generally (from childhood) known as Nana. She resumed her birth name after leaving her husband
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and wrote journalism and some novels under the name...
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Naomi Jacob
Look at the Clock: A Yorkshire Novel, begun in Italy by NJ
's mother, was published by Duckworth
under the name of Nina Abbott, with a foreword by Jacob.
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Naomi Jacob
Jacob wrote up two more novels from notes left by her mother. These were published as Shadow Drama, 1940, by Nina Abbott, [a]rranged and edited . . . by her daughter, Naomi Jacob...
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Naomi Jacob
This book ostensibly deals with three lives: those of NJ
's maternal grandfather, Robert Ellington Collinson
, of her mother
(the eldest of the three children whom he brought up after his first wife's early...