Author: Jane Rachel Henslowe
Author: Jane Rachel Henslowe (1851–1942)
Biography: Jane Rachel Henslowe was born in 1851 in Langport, Somerset, the daughter of clergyman Edward P. Henslowe, the vicar of Huish Episcopi-cum-Langport, and his wife Jane Rachel (née Lambert). She never married and in middle age wrote a few novels beginning with Dorothy Compton (1880). After her parents died, Henslowe moved to the London area. She died in 1942 in Winchester at age 91.
References: British Census (1871, 1901, 1911); Langport and Somerton Herald (18 January 1896)
Fiction Titles:
- Dorothy Compton: A Story of the '15. 1 vol. London: Kerby and Endean, 1880.
- White and Red. 2 vol. London: Kerby and Endean, 1882.
- Duke's Winton: A Chronicle of Sedgemoor. 1 vol. London: John Maxwell, 1886.