Agnes E. Jacomb
Agnes E. Jacomb, pseud: Agnes Elizabeth Jacomb-Hood (1866 – 1949) was an English novelist, born in London. She began her literary career by winning the 250-guinea prize in the Melrose First Novel Competition with The Faith of His Fathers: A Story of Some Idealists (1909). The novel was a commercial as well as a literary success.[1] Her other novels include Johnny Lewison (1909), The Lonely Road (1911), Esther (1912) and The Fruits of the Morrow (1914).[2]
References[]
- ^ James Milne, "Best Novel Competition Won by a Woman With Her First Book: Some Inferences Drawn", The New York Times, April 9, 1910.
- ^ Janet Grimes, Diva Daims, Doris Robinson, Novels in English by Women, 1891–1920: A Preliminary Checklist, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1981, ISBN 0-8240-9522-7 ISBN 978-0-8240-9522-2
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- 1866 births
- 1949 deaths
- Writers from London
- 20th-century English novelists
- English women novelists
- 20th-century English women writers
- 20th-century English writers
- English novelist stubs