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Dilnot George

The Trial of Professor John White Webster. With an Introduction by George Dilnot. [Famous Trials series]. TENNYSON JESSE'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE

Geoffrey Bles, 1928

69.00 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1928
Author
Dilnot George
Publishers
Geoffrey Bles
Keyword
true crime, crime, famous trials, john white webster, dilnot, geroge dilnot, tennyson jesse, bookplates
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 2 plates; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF F. TENNYSON JESSE AND BEARS HER DISTINCTIVE 'SEA-HORSES' BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN AND PENCILLED HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Fryn (properly Friniwyd) Tennyson Jesse (1889-1958), English novelist and dramatist, was also editor of several volumes in Hodges' 'Notable British Trials' series. A great-niece of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, she began her career as a painter but diversified into journalism during WWI, after which she was appointed to Hoover's Relief Commission for Europe. In 1918 she married the dramatist H M Harwood with whom she co-authored a number of light plays. During WWII she wrote two highly successful collections of letters - 'London Front' (1940) and 'While London Burns' (1942) - both now much sought after as appraisals of the early Home Front and the London Blitz; her Cornish novels (among them 'The White Riband' (1921) and 'Moonraker' (1927) are also collected. Her interest in true crime began with her novel 'A Pin to See a Peepshow' (1934; later a successful play) based on the Thompson-Bywaters case. Her Notable British Trials volumes include the cases of Madeleine Smith, Timothy Evans and John Christie.