Secret Bread
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About the author
F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958), born Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse, was a British journalist, novelist and criminologist. She was born at Chislehurst in Kent and died in London, and was a great-niece of the Poet Laureate Lord Tennyson. One of the few women war correspondents during the First World War, she drew on her firsthand experience of the British Women's Army in The Sword of Deborah. Her writing spanned fiction and nonfiction, often dealing with crime, the position of women and society's marginal figures. Her works include Secret Bread, The White Riband Or, A Young Female's Folly and Beggars on Horseback; she also wrote A Pin to See the Peepshow and edited the Notable British Trials series. Four of her works are held in this collection, and further biographical details are limited in publicly available sources.
