Fryniwyd 'Fryn' (Wynifried Margaret) Tennyson Jesse (1888-1958) was an English novelist and dramatist, and the grand-niece of Alfred Lord Tennyson. She worked as a journalist and in 1918 married the dramatist Harold Marsh Harwood. Jesse took a particular interest in crime and edited several volumes of Famous Trials series. Her most famous novel, A Pin to See the Peepshow was based on the Thompson/Bywaters murder case. There is a biography, A Portrait of Fryn, by Joanna Colenbrander. Jesse also wrote one book, The Man Who Stayed at Home, as Beamish Tinker.
Bibliography
The Solange Stories (1931)
A Pin to See the Peepshow (1934)
As Beamish Tinker
The Man Who Stayed At Home (1915)
Editor: The Baffle Book by Lassiter Wren and Randle MacKay (1930) - English Edition
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